Myrmecia laevinodis

Catalog › Formicidae › Myrmeciinae › Myrmeciini › Myrmecia › Myrmecia laevinodis

Myrmecia laevinodis (Clark, 1943) junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia mandibularis Smith, 1858

Promyrmecia laevinodis Clark, 1943: 139, pl. 17, figs. 94, 95 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: Western Australia, Armadale (J. Clark) (invalid restriction of type-locality by Clark, 1951: 144; no lectotype designated), Western Australia, Albany (J. Clark), Western Australia, Bunbury (J. Clark), South Australia, Lucindale (A.M. Lea), South Australia, Melrose (A.M. Lea), South Australia, Kangaroo I. (A. Campbell), Victoria, Mallee (J.E. Dixon). Primary type depository: MVMA.

Status as species: Clark, 1951: 154 (redescription).
Junior synonym of Myrmecia mandibularis: Brown, 1953j: 4; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 12; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1630; Bolton, 1995b: 272.

Obsolete combinations

Promyrmecia laevinodis

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. 1953j. Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 111:1-35. PDF
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.; 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.

AntWeb AntWiki HOL Google Scholar