Opisthopsis diademata

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Opisthopsis diademata Wheeler, 1918 valid

Opisthopsis diadematus Wheeler, 1918d: 357, pl. 3, figs. 20, 21 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 7 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Townsville, 1914-15 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC.

[Justified emendation of spelling to Opisthopsis diademata by B. Bolton.]
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 55; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 128; Taylor, 1987a: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 300.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

O. d. dubia Wheeler, 1918

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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. 1918d. The ants of the genus Opisthopsis Emery. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 62:341-362. PDF

Extant: 1 valid subspecies

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