Myrmecia regina

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Myrmecia regina Santschi, 1928 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia gilberti Forel, 1910

Myrmecia (Pristomyrmecia) regina Santschi, 1928e: 465 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 5 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Townsville, 19.iv.1902, 23.v.1902, and 18.vi.1902 (F.P. Dodd). Primary type depositories: MCZC, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0912438. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 125, cites 3 worker syntypes in NHMB.

Junior synonym of Myrmecia gilberti: Wheeler, 1933i: 73; Clark, 1943: 136; Clark, 1951: 169; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 11; Taylor, 1987a: 43; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1630; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
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.; 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
Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56:465-483. 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, W. M. 1933i. Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, viii + 179 pp.

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