Myrmecorhynchus nitidus

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Myrmecorhynchus nitidus Clark, 1934 valid

Myrmecorhynchus nitidus Clark, 1934b: 44, pl. 3, figs. 13-16 (s.w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria, Australian Capital Territory). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: worker, queen, male Australia: Victoria, Cheltenham (L.B. Thorn), worker, male Australia: Federal Capital Territory, Canberra (T. Greaves). Primary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MVMA.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 125; Taylor, 1987a: 47; Bolton, 1995b: 275; Shattuck, 2015: 289 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1934b. New Australian ants. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:21-47. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 2015. A review of the ant genus Myrmecorhynchus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3955 (2):283-290. 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.

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