Orectognathus nigriventris

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Orectognathus nigriventris Mercovich, 1958 valid

Orectognathus nigriventris Mercovich, 1958: 195, fig. (w.) Date of publication 28.vii.1958. AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Martinville, near Morisset (ca 80 mi. N of Sydney), Dora Creek, 4.ix.1956 (T.C. Mercovich). Primary type depository: QMBA. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 45 paratype workers, 4 paratype queens. Secondary type localities: 45 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 1 paratype queen New South Wales, Como, 3 paratype queens New South Wales, Galston Gorge, Cowan Creek, and Calga. Secondary type depositories: AMSC, ANIC, MCZC, MVMA, QMBA.

[Orectognathus nigriventris Brown, 1958b: 28 (diagnosis in key), attributed to Mercovich ms. (date of publication 10.i.1958). Unavailable name (published without designation of type material).]
[Note: the comment by Brown, 1958b: 17, and the notation on p. 28, “(nigriventris Mercovich ms.)” make it clear that Brown did not intend the name to be made available in his publication.]
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1973c: 213 (l.)
Status as species: Taylor, 1977: 588 (in key); Taylor, 1978b: 10 (in key); Taylor, 1980a: 787; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 73; Taylor, 1987a: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 301; Bolton, 2000: 23.

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. 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
Mercovich, T. C. 1958. A new species of the genus Orectognathus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13:195-198. 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. 1973c. The ant larvae of the tribes Basicerotini and Dacetini: second supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 49:207-214. PDF

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