Melophorus fieldi propinquus

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

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Melophorus fieldi propinquus Viehmeyer, 1925 junior synonym of current valid taxon Melophorus marius Forel, 1910

Melophorus fieldi var. propinqua Viehmeyer, 1925a: 36 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “single runners”). Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Liverpool (H. Overbeck). Primary type depository: MNHU (perhaps also SMTD).

Subspecies of Melophorus fieldi: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 123; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 250.
Junior synonym of Melophorus biroi: Heterick et al., 2017: 162.
Junior synonym of Melophorus marius: Heterick, 2021: 18.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Heterick, B. E. 2021. A guide to the ants of Western Australia. Part I: Systematics. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 86:245 pp. 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 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.
Viehmeyer, H. 1925a. Formiciden der australischen Faunenregion. (Fortsetzung.). Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 14:25-39. PDF

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