Myrmecia nobilis

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Myrmecia nobilis (Clark, 1943) valid

Promyrmecia nobilis Clark, 1943: 97, pl. 12, figs. 2-4 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: worker Australia: Victoria, Altona (J.E. Dixon), worker, queen, male Victoria, Altona (T. Greaves), worker, queen, male Victoria, Altona (J. Clark), worker, queen Victoria, Bacchus Marsh (C. Oke), worker, queen Victoria, Coburg (C. Oke), worker Victoria, Broadmeadows (F.P. Spry), queen Victoria, Geelong (A.D. Butcher), Victoria, Patho (H. Potter). Primary type depository: MVMA.

Combination in Myrmecia: Brown, 1953j: 19
Status as species: Clark, 1951: 124 (redescription); Brown, 1953j: 19; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 13; Taylor, 1987a: 44; Ogata, 1991a: 356; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1632 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 272.

Obsolete combinations

Promyrmecia nobilis

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. 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.

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