Orectognathus howensis

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Orectognathus howensis Wheeler, 1927 valid

Orectognathus antennatus var. howensis Wheeler, 1927i: 145, fig. 7 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker (head missing). Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Lord Howe I., 1915-16 (A.M. Lea). Primary type depository: ANIC. Type notes: 1) Brown, 1953k: 100, cites holotype in SAMA. 2) Taylor, 1977: 584, records its transfer to ANIC.

Subspecies of Orectognathus antennatus: Wheeler, 1935g: 32.
Status as species: Brown, 1953k: 100; Brown, 1958b: 27 (in key); Taylor, 1977: 588 (in key); Taylor, 1978b: 10 (in key); Taylor, 1980a: 786; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 73; Taylor, 1987a: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 301; Bolton, 2000: 22.

Obsolete combinations

Orectognathus antennatus howensis

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
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, W. M. 1927i. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62:121-153. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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