Melophorus laticeps

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Melophorus laticeps Wheeler, 1915 valid

Melophorus laticeps Wheeler, 1915h: 813, pl. 66, fig. 2 (q.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Australia: South Australia, between Todmorden and Wantapella, 1914, (Everard & Musgrave Ranges Expd.) (S.A. White). Primary type depository: SAMA.

Heterick et al., 2017: 349 (s.w.)
Combination in Melophorus (Erimelophorus): Wheeler, 1935c: 71.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 12; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 124; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 250; Heterick et al., 2017: 349.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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.
Wheeler, W. M. 1915h. Hymenoptera. [In "Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia".]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39:805-823. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Cambridge) 42:68-72. PDF

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