Lioponera australis

Lioponera australis Forel, 1895 junior synonym of current valid taxon Lioponera longitarsus Mayr, 1879

Lioponera longitarsus var. australis Forel, 1895g: 422 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Mackay, The Ridge (G. Turner). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907069. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Taylor & Brown, 1985: 26, suspect a syntype series.

Subspecies of Lioponera longitarsus: Emery, 1911e: 12; Donisthorpe, 1939a: 254.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1918a: 264
Junior synonym of Lioponera longitarsus: Forel, 1895g: 422; Brown, 1975: 23; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 26; Taylor, 1987a: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 142.

Obsolete combinations

Lioponera longitarsus australis

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
Donisthorpe, H. 1939a. The genus Lioponera Mayr (Formicidae, Cerapachyinae), with descriptions of two new species and an ergatandromorph. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)3:252-257. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1895g. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie, récoltées à The Ridge, Mackay, Queensland, par M. Gilbert Turner. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:417-428. 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. 1918a. The Australian ants of the ponerine tribe Cerapachyini. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 53:215-265. PDF

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