Opisthopsis major

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Opisthopsis major Forel, 1902 valid

Opisthopsis major Forel, 1902j: 492 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Mackay (G. Turner). Primary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0909944.

[Opisthopsis major Emery, 1895h: 354. Nomen nudum (attributed to Forel, in text).]
Status as species: Forel, 1910b: 70; Wheeler, 1918d: 358 (redescription); Emery, 1925d: 55; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 128; Taylor, 1987a: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 301.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1895h. Descriptions de quelques fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39:345-358. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. PDF
Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. 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

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