Heteroponera occidentalis

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Heteroponera occidentalis (Clark, 1926) junior synonym of current valid taxon Heteroponera imbellis (Emery, 1895)

Acanthoponera occidentalis Clark, 1926: 47, pl. 6, fig. 3 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a small colony”). Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, National Park (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1934d: 140.
Junior synonym of Heteroponera imbellis: Brown, 1958g: 196; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 30; Taylor, 1987a: 28; Bolton, 1995b: 212.

Obsolete combinations

Acanthoponera occidentalis

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. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
Clark, J. 1926. Australian Formicidae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 12:43-51. 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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