Nothomyrmecia macrops
Clark, 1934
valid
Nothomyrmecia macrops
Clark, 1934a:
19, fig. 1 (w.)
AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Type-material: 2 syntype workers. Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Russell Range (A.E. Baesjou). Type-depository: MVMA.
- [Misspelled as macrips by Taylor, 1978a: reprint title page.]
- Taylor, 1978a: 979 (q.m.); Wheeler et al., 1980: 131 (l.); Imai et al., 1991: 133 (k.)
- Combination in †Prionomyrmex: Baroni Urbani, 2000: 479.
- Combination in Nothomyrmecia: Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003: 418 (in text); Ward & Brady, 2003: 375.
- Status as species: Brown & Wilson, 1959a: 25; Taylor, 1978a: 980 (redescription); Kugler, 1980b: 263; Ward & Taylor, 1981: 177; Hölldobler & Taylor, 1984: 382; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 5; Taylor, 1987a: 47; Jaisson et al., 1992: 425; Bolton, 1995b: 292; Baroni Urbani, 2000: 479; Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003: 418 (in text); Ward & Brady, 2003: 375.
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C. 2000. Rediscovery of the Baltic amber ant genus Prionomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and its taxonomic consequences. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 93:471-480. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Brown, W. L., Jr.; Wilson, E. O. 1959a. The search for Nothomyrmecia. Western Australian Naturalist 7:25-30. PDF
- Clark, J. 1934a. Notes on Australian ants, with descriptions of new species and a new genus. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:5-20. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M.; Rasnitsyn, A. P. 2003 ("2002"). Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russian Entomological Journal 11:411-436. PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Taylor, R. W. 1984 ("1983"). A behavioral study of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark. Insectes Sociaux 30:384-401.
- Imai, H. T.; Taylor, R. W.; Kubota, M.; Ogata, K.; Wada, M. Y. 1991 ("1990"). Notes on the remarkable karyology of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops, and of the related genus Myrmecia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 97:133-140. PDF
- Jaisson, P.; Fresneau, D.; Taylor, R. W.; Lenoir, A. 1992. Social organization in some primitive Australian ants. I. Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark. Insectes Sociaux 39:425-438. PDF
- Kugler, C. 1980b. The sting apparatus in the primitive ants Nothomyrmecia and Myrmecia. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:263-267. PDF
- Taylor, R. W. 1978a. Nothomyrmecia macrops: a living-fossil ant rediscovered. Science (Washington, D. C.) 201:979-985. 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.
- Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G. 2003. Phylogeny and biogeography of the ant subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Systematics 17:361-386. PDF
- Ward, P. S.; Taylor, R. W. 1981. Allozyme variation, colony structure and genetic relatedness in the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 20:177-183. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J.; Taylor, R. W. 1980. The larval and egg stages of the primitive ant Nothomyrmecia macrops Clark (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:131-137. PDF