Anonychomyrma foetans

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Anonychomyrma foetans (Clark, 1929) junior synonym of current valid taxon Anonychomyrma biconvexa (Santschi, 1928)

Iridomyrmex foetans Clark, 1929b: 122, pl. 1, fig. 4 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a colony”). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, East Gippsland, Cann River, 26.xi.-8.xii.1928 (J. Clark). Primary type depositories: MCZC, MVMA. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 4, cites 9 worker syntypes (3 in MCZC, 6 in MVMA).

Status as species: Clark, 1934c: 64.
Junior synonym of Anonychomyrma biconvexa: Brown, 1954i: 67; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 97; Taylor, 1987a: 31; Shattuck, 1994: 4; Bolton, 1995b: 66.

Obsolete combinations

Iridomyrmex foetans

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. 1954i. New synonymy of an Australian Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 61:67. PDF
Clark, J. 1929b. Results of a collecting trip to the Cann River, East Gippsland. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 46:115-123. PDF
Clark, J. 1934c. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:48-73. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. 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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