Oecophylla viridis

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Oecophylla viridis (Kirby, 1819) junior synonym of current valid taxon Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius, 1775)

Formica viridis Kirby, 1819: 478 (q.) AUSTRALIA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype queen(s) (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia (“New Holland”): “Habitat in Australasia septentrionali” (R. Brown). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: Type series may also include workers as Kirby writes, “This is the ant the bite of which Sir Joseph Banks found so painful.”

Junior synonym of Oecophylla virescens: Roger, 1863b: 10, 46; Emery, 1887a: 243; Dalla Torre, 1893: 177; Emery, 1925d: 52.
Junior synonym of Oecophylla smaragdina: Smith, 1857a: 53; Smith, 1858a: 17; Mayr, 1863a: 438; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 127; Taylor, 1987a: 49; Bolton, 1995b: 298; Zhou, 2001a: 189.

Obsolete combinations

Formica viridis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1887a ("1886"). Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia. [part]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 24[=(2)4]:209-240. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Kirby, W. 1819 ("1818"). A description of several new species of insects collected in New Holland by Robert Brown, Esq. F.R.S. Lib. Linn. Soc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 12:454-478. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Smith, F. 1857a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2:42-88. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. 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.
Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF

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