Myrmecia pyriformis

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Myrmecia pyriformis Smith, 1858 valid

Myrmecia pyriformis Smith, 1858a: 144, pl. 10, figs. 1-6 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype worker(s), syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: Victoria, Melbourne (no collector’s name) (invalid restriction of type locality by Clark, 1951: 101; no lectotype designated), Australia: New South Wales, Hunter River (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: BMNH.

[Misspelled as piriformis by Dalla Torre, 1893: 21.]
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971d: 252 (l.); Imai et al., 1977: 345 (k.)
Subspecies of Myrmecia forficata: Forel, 1910b: 2.
Status as species: Roger, 1861a: 35; Mayr, 1862: 726 (in key); Roger, 1863b: 22; Mayr, 1863a: 430; Mayr, 1865: 85; Lowne, 1865b: 336; Mayr, 1876: 96; Emery, 1887f: 443; Dalla Torre, 1893: 21; Wheeler, 1909a: 27; Emery, 1911e: 20; Forel, 1915b: 4; Crawley, 1926: 377 (redescription); Clark, 1927: 37; Clark, 1951: 99 (redescription); Brown, 1953j: 9; Kugler, 1980b: 265; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 15; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata, 1991a: 358; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1636 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 273.
Senior synonym of Myrmecia sanguinea: Brown, 1953j: 9; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 15; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1629; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Junior synonyms

Myrmecia sanguinea Smith, 1858

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
Crawley, W. C. 1926. A revision of some old types of Formicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1925:373-393. PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1887f. Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia (continuazione e fine). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 25[=(2)5]:433-448. PDF
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Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
Imai, H. T.; Crozier, R. H.; Taylor, R. W. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma (Berlin) 59:341-393. PDF
Kugler, C. 1980b. The sting apparatus in the primitive ants Nothomyrmecia and Myrmecia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:263-267. PDF
Lowne, B. T. 1865b. Contributions to the natural history of Australian ants. Entomologist 2:331-336.
Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776. PDF
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