Chelaner falcatus

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Chelaner falcatus (McAreavey, 1949) valid

Schizopelta falcata McAreavey, 1949: 15, figs. 42-47 (w.eq.m.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Nyngan (J.W.T. Armstrong). Primary type depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, “a large series”), 1 paratype ergatoid queen, 1 paratype male. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MVMA. Type notes: Heterick, 2001: 380, adds that holotype has ‘Bogan River’.

Combination in Monomorium: Taylor, 1987b: 2.
Combination in Chelaner: Ettershank, 1966: 96; Sparks et al., 2019: 232.
Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 96; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 56; Taylor, 1987a: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 261; Heterick, 2001: 380 (redescription); Sparks et al., 2019: 232.

Obsolete combinations

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:353-459. PDF
McAreavey, J. 1949. Australian Formicidae. New genera and species. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 74:1-25. PDF
Sparks, K. S.; Andersen, A. N.; Austin, A. D. 2019. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. Invertebrate Systematics 33:225-236. 10.1071/ISI6080 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. 1987b. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). First supplement, 10 July, 1987. CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41(Suppl.1):1-5.
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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