Prolasius depressiceps

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Prolasius depressiceps (Emery, 1914) valid

Melophorus depressiceps Emery, 1914a: 186, fig. 5 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Katoomba, 1913 (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: MSNG.

Combination in Prolasius: Wheeler, 1935c: 71.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 12; McAreavey, 1947: 23 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 143; Taylor, 1987a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 368.

Obsolete combinations

Melophorus depressiceps

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1914a. Formiche d'Australia e di Samoa raccolte dal Prof. Silvestri nel 1913. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:179-186. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
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.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Cambridge) 42:68-72. PDF

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