Myrmecia rectidens

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Myrmecia rectidens Forel, 1910 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia piliventris Smith, 1858

Myrmecia piliventris var. rectidens Forel, 1910b: 5 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Kingstown (W.W. Froggatt). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907100. Type notes: Clark, 1951: 161, adds that Kingstown is in New South Wales.

Clark, 1951: 160 (subapterous q. ergatoid q.).
Combination in Myrmecia (Pristomyrmecia): Emery, 1911e: 21.
Combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 141.
Subspecies of Myrmecia piliventris: Emery, 1911e: 21; Clark, 1943: 141 (redescription).
Status as species: Clark, 1951: 159 (redescription).
Junior synonym of Myrmecia piliventris: Brown, 1953j: 20; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 14; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1630; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Obsolete combinations

Myrmecia piliventris rectidens

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
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. 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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