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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
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Formicidae
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Myrmeciinae
›
Myrmeciini
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Myrmecia
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Myrmecia vindex
Myrmecia
vindex
Smith, 1858
valid
Myrmecia vindex
Smith, 1858a
: 144 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: West Australia, “42/19” (
Moore
). Primary type depository:
BMNH
.
Type notes:
Head detached, glued to label whose underside reads, “
vindex
type Sm.”
Roger, 1861a
: 34 (q.);
Clark, 1925b
: 143 (q.m.);
Clark, 1951
: 69 (ergatoid q.);
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971d
: 254 (l.)
Status as species:
Roger, 1861a
: 34;
Mayr, 1862
: 725 (in key);
Roger, 1863b
: 22;
Mayr, 1863a
: 431;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 22;
Forel, 1907j
: 264;
Emery, 1911e
: 19;
Poulton, 1922
: 119;
Clark, 1925b
: 143;
Crawley, 1926
: 376 (redescription);
Wheeler, 1933i
: 36;
Clark, 1951
: 67 (redescription);
Douglas & Brown, 1959
: 14;
Haskins & Haskins, 1974
: 258;
Kugler, 1980b
: 265;
Taylor & Brown, 1985
: 17;
Taylor, 1987a
: 46;
Ogata, 1991a
: 358;
Ogata & Taylor, 1991
: 1638 (in key), 1661;
Bolton, 1995b
: 273;
Heterick, 2009
: 121.
Senior synonym of
Myrmecia vindex basirufa
:
Ogata & Taylor, 1991
: 1661;
Bolton, 1995b
: 273.
Junior synonyms
Myrmecia vindex basirufa
Forel, 1907
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J.
1925b.
The ants of Victoria. Part II.
Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 42:135-144.
PDF
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
Douglas, A.
;
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1959.
Myrmecia inquilina
new species: the first parasite among the lower ants.
Insectes Sociaux 6:13-19.
PDF
Emery, C.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
PDF
Forel, A.
1907j.
Formicidae.
In:
Michaelsen, W.
;
Hartmeyer, R.
(eds.) 1907.
Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7.
Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310.
PDF
Haskins, C. P.
;
Haskins, E. F.
1974.
Notes on the necrophoric behaviour in the archaic ant
Myrmecia
vindex
.
Psyche (Cambridge) 81:258-267.
PDF
Heterick, B. E.
2009.
A guide to the ants of south-western Australia.
Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206.
PDF
Kugler, C.
1980b.
The sting apparatus in the primitive ants
Nothomyrmecia
and
Myrmecia
.
Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:263-267.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1862.
Myrmecologische Studien.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Ogata, K.
1991a.
Ants of the genus
Myrmecia
Fabricius: a review of the species groups and their phylogenetic relationships (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae).
Systematic Entomology 16:353-381.
PDF
Ogata, K.
;
Taylor, R. W.
1991.
Ants of the genus
Myrmecia
Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae).
Journal of Natural History 25:1623-1673.
PDF
Poulton, E. B.
1922.
Notes on some Australian ants. Biological notes by E. B. Poulton, D.Sc., M.A., F.R.S., and notes and descriptions of new forms by W. C. Crawley, B.A., F.E.S., F.R.M.S. [Combined reference].
Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 58:118-126.
Roger, J.
1861a.
Die
Ponera
-artigen Ameisen (Schluss).
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 5:1-54.
PDF
Roger, J.
1863b.
Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65.
PDF
Smith, F.
1858a.
Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae.
London: British Museum, 216 pp.
PDF
Taylor, R. W.
1987a.
A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92.
PDF
Taylor, R. W.
;
Brown, D. R.
1985.
Formicoidea.
Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, G. C.
;
Wheeler, J.
1971d.
Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47:245-256.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1933i.
Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, viii + 179 pp.
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