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Leptomyrmex tibialis Emery, 1895 valid

Leptomyrmex nigriventris var. tibialis Emery, 1895h: 351 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Lucky & Ward, 2010: 55). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Queensland, Laidley (“Laidely”) (G. Podenzana). Primary type depository: MSNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MSNG.

Lectotype designation: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 55.
Wheeler, 1934c: 96 (eq.m.)
Subspecies of Leptomyrmex nigriventris: Emery, 1913a: 17; Forel, 1915b: 84; Wheeler, 1915e: 272 (redescription); Wheeler, 1934c: 96; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 105; Taylor, 1987a: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 119; Bolton, 1995b: 235.
Status as species: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 55 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Leptomyrmex nigriventris hackeri: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 55

Junior synonyms

Leptomyrmex nigriventris hackeri Wheeler, 1934

Obsolete combinations

Leptomyrmex nigriventris tibialis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1895h. Descriptions de quelques fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:345-358. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1915b. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910-13. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(16):1-119. PDF
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. 1915e. The Australian honey-ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51:255-286. PDF
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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