Orectognathus clarki

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Orectognathus clarki Brown, 1953 valid

Orectognathus clarki Brown, 1953k: 94, figs. 1b, 2c (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Ferntree Gully (W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 62 paratype workers, 8 paratype queens, 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: paratypes with same data as holotype, paratype series from same locality as holotype (J. Clark), (F.P. Spry); paratypes Victoria, summit of Mt Dandenong, 2000 ft (W.L. Brown), Airey’s Inlet, Otway Peninsula (J.J. McAreavey), Millgrove (J.E. Dixon), Woori Yallock (L.B. Thorn); paratypes Tasmania, Hobart (A.M. Lea), Tasmania, Trevallyn (V.V. Hickman), Launceston (C.E. Cole); paratypes New South Wales, Dorrigo (W. Heron); paratypes Queensland, Toowoomba (E.J. Dumigan). Secondary type depositories: AMSC, ANIC, BMNH, HNHM, MCZC, MHNG, MSNG, MVMA, QMBA, SAMA, USNM, WAMP.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955a: 126 (l.); Crozier, 1968c: 87 (k.)
Status as species: Brown, 1958b: 29 (in key); Taylor, 1977: 588 (in key); Taylor, 1978b: 10 (in key); Taylor, 1980a: 773; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 73; Taylor, 1987a: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 301; Bolton, 2000: 21; Heterick, 2009: 168.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953k. A revision of the dacetine ant genus Orectognathus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13:84-104. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958b ("1957"). A supplement to the revisions of the dacetine ant genera Orectognathus and Arnoldidris, with keys to the species. Psyche (Cambridge) 64:17-29. PDF
Crozier, R. H. 1968c. The chromosomes of three Australian dacetine ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 75:87-90. 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
Taylor, R. W. 1977. New ants of the Australasian genus Orectognathus, with a key to the known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 25:581-612. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1978b. A taxonomic guide to the ant genus Orectognathus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 3:1-11. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1980a ("1979"). New Australian ants of the genus Orectognathus, with summary description of the twenty-nine known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27:773-788. 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. 1955a ("1954"). The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribes Basicerotini and Dacetini. Psyche (Cambridge) 61:111-145. PDF

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