Myrmecia walkeri

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

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Myrmecia walkeri Forel, 1893 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia esuriens Fabricius, 1804

Myrmecia walkeri Forel, 1893f: 456 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Tasmania). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Tasmania, Hobart (J.J. Walker). Primary type depository: MHNG.

Junior synonym of Myrmecia esuriens: Emery, 1911e: 20; Clark, 1934a: 16; Clark, 1951: 84; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 9; Taylor, 1987a: 42; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1628; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1934a. Notes on Australian ants, with descriptions of new species and a new genus. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:5-20. 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. 1893f. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie et des Canaries. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 37:454-466. 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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