Mesostruma laevigata

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Mesostruma laevigata Brown, 1952 valid

Mesostruma laevigata Brown, 1952g: 12, fig. 1a,b (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Sea Lake (J.C. Goudie). Primary type depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 14 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: ANIC, MCZC, SAMA, USNM.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955a: 130 (l.)
Status as species: Taylor, 1962a: 6 (in key); Taylor, 1973: 28 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 69; Taylor, 1987a: 40; Taylor, 1991b: 604; Bolton, 1995b: 252; Shattuck, 2000: 51 (redescription); Heterick, 2009: 157.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. I. Tribe Platythyreini (Hymenoptera). Breviora 6:1-6. 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
Shattuck, S. O. 2000. Genus Colobostruma. Genus Mesostruma. Genus Epopostruma. Pp. 31-67 in: Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Taylor, R. W. 1962a. New Australian dacetine ants of the genera Mesostruma Brown and Codiomyrmex Wheeler (Hymenoptera-Formicidae). Breviora 152:1-10. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1973. Ants of the Australian genus Mesostruma Brown (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12:24-38. 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. 1991b. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australasian ants of the Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 30:599-614. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1955a ("1954"). The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribes Basicerotini and Dacetini. Psyche (Cambridge) 61:111-145. PDF

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