Prolasius convexus

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Prolasius convexus McAreavey, 1947 valid

Prolasius convexa McAreavey, 1947: 15, pl. 1, figs. 6, 7 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Dorrigo (P.J. Darlington). Primary type depository: MVMA. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MVMA. Type notes: Taylor, 1992a: 65, cites 3 worker paratypes.

[Justified emendation of spelling to Prolasius convexus by B. Bolton.]
Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 142; Taylor, 1987a: 65; Taylor, 1992a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 368.
Senior synonym of Prolasius nigriventris: Taylor, 1992a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 368.

Junior synonyms

Prolasius nigriventris McAreavey, 1947

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
McAreavey, J. 1947. New species of the genera Prolasius Forel and Melophorus Lubbock (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 15:7-27. 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. 1992a. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:57-69. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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