Myrmecia shepherdi

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Myrmecia shepherdi (Clark, 1943) junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia varians Mayr, 1876

Promyrmecia shepherdi Clark, 1943: 128, pl. 15, figs. 50-52 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: New South Wales, Broken Hill (F.W. Shepherd), New South Wales, Dubbo (W.W. Froggatt) (invalid restriction of type locality by Clark, 1951: 186; no lectotype designated), South Australia, Finke River (G.F. Hill), South Australia, Murray Bridge (A.H. Elston), Victoria, Nhill (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA. Primary type specimen: ANTWEB1008294.

Status as species: Clark, 1951: 184 (redescription).
Junior synonym of Myrmecia varians: Brown, 1953j: 15; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; Taylor, 1987a: 46; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1631; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Obsolete combinations

Promyrmecia shepherdi

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.

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