Austroponera clarki

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Austroponera clarki (Wheeler, 1934) junior synonym of current valid taxon Austroponera rufonigra (Clark, 1934)

Euponera (Trachymesopus) clarki Wheeler, 1934d: 140 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: >6 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type localities: 6 workers Australia: Western Australia, Rottnest I., Serpentine Lake, 23.x.1931, (Harvard Expd.) (P.J. Darlington, I. Dixon, W.M. Wheeler), workers (“a few”), 1 queen Australia: Western Australia, Margaret River (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MCZC (perhaps also WAMP).

Combination in Trachymesopus: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 52.
Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 304.
Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 52; Taylor, 1987a: 80.
Junior synonym of Austroponera rufonigra: Brown, 1952i: 138; Heterick, 2009: 135 (in text).

Obsolete combinations

Citations

Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952i. Notes on two well-known Australian ant species. Western Australian Naturalist 3:137-138.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20:137-163. PDF

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