Protonym: Myrmecia borealis
Authorship Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1647
Forms w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (Queensland)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, McIlwraith Range (13/143), Leo Creek Rd, ca 550 m., 22.vii.1973 (R.W. Taylor). Primary type depository: ANIC.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 65 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: 17 paratype workers with same data as holotype, 3 paratype workers Queensland, Iron Range, Mt Tozer summit (12/143), 8.xii.1985 (G.B. Monteith & D. Cook), 3 paratype workers Mt Tozer above 1500 ft, 16.x.1968 (G.B. Monteith), 2 paratype workers Mt Tozer area, 30-31.v.1971 (B. Cantrell), 12 paratype workers McIlwraith Range, Leo Creek Road, 500 m., 26.vi.-4.vii.1976 (G.B. & S.R. Monteith), 11 paratype workers McIlwraith Range, 10-20.vii.1976 (P. Filewood), 1 paratype worker McIlwraith Range, Summit C, 700-800 m., 5.vi.1979 (P.A. Mathews), 2 paratype workers Lankelly Creek, vi.1932 (Harvard Australia Expd.) (no collector’s name), 14 workers Upper Lankelly Creek (13/143), 10-11.vi.1971 (G.B. Monteith). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, MHNG, QMBA. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0902791.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Myrmecia borealis Species Valid Original combination