Lioponera castaneus

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Lioponera castaneus (Clark, 1924) junior synonym of current valid taxon Lioponera clarki (Crawley, 1922)

Phyracaces castaneus Clark, 1924b: 79, pl. 7, figs. 7-14 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype worker, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “a colony containing workers, females, males, and two pseudogynes”). Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Hovea (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA. Primary type specimen: ANTWEB1008228.

Junior synonym of Lioponera clarki: Brown, 1975: 22; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 24; Taylor, 1987a: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 142.

Obsolete combinations

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. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Clark, J. 1924b. Australian Formicidae. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 10:75-89. 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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