Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus basirufus

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Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus basirufus Wheeler, 1934 junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptomyrmex rufithorax Forel, 1915

Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus subsp. basirufus Wheeler, 1934c: 90 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Buderim Mts (H. Hacker). Primary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 116, cites a single worker from Bundaberg as a syntype, but this locality was not mentioned in the original description.

Subspecies of Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 104; Taylor, 1987a: 35; Bolton, 1995b: 234.
Subspecies of Leptomyrmex darlingtoni: Shattuck, 1994: 116.
Junior synonym of Leptomyrmex rufithorax: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 53

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Lucky, A.; Ward, P. S. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2688:1-67. 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.
Wheeler, W. M. 1934c. A second revision of the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:69-118. PDF

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