Orectognathus versicolor

Orectognathus versicolor Donisthorpe, 1940 valid

Orectognathus versicolor Donisthorpe, 1940a: 46 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Tambourine Mts, 18-25.v.1935 (R.E. Turner). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: Holotype “head has been lost since 1940” (Brown, 1953k: 90); entire holotype lost, reported as missing from mount, i.1968.

Brown, 1953k: 93 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955a: 128 (l.); Imai et al., 1977: 349 (k.)
Status as species: Brown, 1953k: 90 (redescription); Brown, 1958b: 29 (in key); Taylor, 1977: 588 (in key); Taylor, 1978b: 10 (in key); Taylor, 1980a: 788; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 74; Taylor, 1987a: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 301; Bolton, 2000: 25.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953k. A revision of the dacetine ant genus Orectognathus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13:84-104. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958b ("1957"). A supplement to the revisions of the dacetine ant genera Orectognathus and Arnoldidris, with keys to the species. Psyche (Cambridge) 64:17-29. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1940a. Descriptions of new species of ants (Hym., Formicidae) from various localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)5:39-48. PDF
Imai, H. T.; Crozier, R. H.; Taylor, R. W. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma (Berlin) 59:341-393. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1977. New ants of the Australasian genus Orectognathus, with a key to the known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 25:581-612. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1978b. A taxonomic guide to the ant genus Orectognathus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 3:1-11. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1980a ("1979"). New Australian ants of the genus Orectognathus, with summary description of the twenty-nine known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27:773-788. 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, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1955a ("1954"). The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribes Basicerotini and Dacetini. Psyche (Cambridge) 61:111-145. PDF

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