Myrmecia dixoni

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Myrmecia dixoni (Clark, 1943) junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia testaceipes (Clark, 1943)

Promyrmecia dixoni Clark, 1943: 135, pl. 16, figs. 77, 78 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: Victoria, Eltham (J.E. Dixon), Victoria, Eltham (F.E. Wilson) (invalid restriction of type locality by Clark, 1951: 180; no lectotype designated), New South Wales, Albury (F.E. Wilson), Australian Federal (= Capital) Territory, Canberra (T. Greaves). Primary type depository: MVMA.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971d: 247 (l.)
Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8
Status as species: Clark, 1951: 179 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8; Taylor, 1987a: 42; Ogata, 1991a: 362.
Junior synonym of Myrmecia testaceipes: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1666; Bolton, 1995b: 271.

Obsolete combinations

Promyrmecia dixoni

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 13:83-149. PDF
Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
Ogata, K. 1991a. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a review of the species groups and their phylogenetic relationships (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Systematic Entomology 16:353-381. PDF
Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Journal of Natural History 25:1623-1673. 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, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1971d. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47:245-256. PDF

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