Myrmecia simillima violacea

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Myrmecia simillima violacea Clark, 1927 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia forficata (Fabricius, 1787)

Myrmecia simillima var. violacea Clark, 1927: 37 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Healesville (H.A. Arnold). Primary type depository: MHNG (possibly also in NHRS).

[First available use of Myrmecia forficata simillima violacea Forel, 1915b; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (Taylor, 1986: 34).]
Subspecies of Myrmecia simillima: Santschi, 1928e: 465.
Junior synonym of Myrmecia rubra: Clark, 1951: 98
Junior synonym of Myrmecia forficata: Brown, 1953j: 28; Bolton, 1995b: 271.

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. 1927. The ants of Victoria. Part III. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 44:33-40. PDF
Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56:465-483. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1986. The quadrinominal infrasubspecific names of Australian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). General and Applied Entomology 18:33-37. PDF

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