Melophorus potteri

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Melophorus potteri McAreavey, 1947 valid

Melophorus potteri McAreavey, 1947: 25, fig. 1 (s.w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Patho (H. Potter). Primary type depository: MVMA.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 124; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 250; Heterick, 2009: 94; Heterick et al., 2017: 409 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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
McAreavey, J. 1947. New species of the genera Prolasius Forel and Melophorus Lubbock (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 15:7-27. 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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