Melophorus turneri aesopus
Forel, 1910
junior synonym of current valid taxon Melophorus turneri Forel, 1910
Melophorus turneri subsp. aesopus
Forel, 1910b:
64 (s.w.q.m.)
AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory).
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Northern Territory, Tennants Creek (J.F. Field). Primary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG.
- Subspecies of Melophorus turneri: Emery, 1925d: 12; Clark, 1938: 375; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 125; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 250.
- Junior synonym of Melophorus turneri: Heterick et al., 2017: 315.
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
- Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
- Heterick, B. E.; Castalanelli, M.; Shattuck, S. O. 2017. Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 700:1-420. 10.3897/zookeys.700.11784 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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