Rhytidoponera pulchra

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Rhytidoponera pulchra (Clark, 1941) junior synonym of current valid taxon Rhytidoponera metallica (Smith, 1858)

Chalcoponera pulchra Clark, 1941b: 86, pl. 13, fig. 16 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Forrest, iv.1930 (C.L. Barrett). Primary type depository: MVMA.

Junior synonym of Rhytidoponera metallica: Brown, 1958g: 204, 275; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 45; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 380.

Obsolete combinations

Chalcoponera pulchra

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
Clark, J. 1941b. Australian Formicidae. Notes and new species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 12:71-94. 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.

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