Melophorus sulla

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Melophorus sulla Forel, 1910 valid

Melophorus ludius subsp. sulla Forel, 1910b: 66 (s.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Northern Territory). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype major worker (by designation of Heterick et al., 2017: 308). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Northern Territory, Tennants Creek (J.F. Field). Primary type depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype major worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: Original syntype series also included queens and males (numbers not stated), commented on by Heterick et al., 2017: 313.

Lectotype designation: Heterick et al., 2017: 308.
Heterick et al., 2017: 312 (w.)
Subspecies of Melophorus ludius: Forel, 1915b: 89; Emery, 1925d: 12; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 124; Taylor, 1987a: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 250; Heterick, 2009: 96.
Status as species: Heterick et al., 2017: 308 (redescription).
Material of the unavailable name Melophorus ludius sulla breviscapa referred here by Heterick et al., 2017: 308.

Obsolete combinations

Melophorus ludius sulla

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
Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. 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
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
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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