Prolasius formicoides

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Prolasius formicoides (Forel, 1902) valid

Melophorus formicoides Forel, 1902j: 483 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queen(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Mackay (G. Turner). Primary type depositories: ANIC, MHNG, MNHN. Type notes: Taylor, 1992a: 65, cites 1 worker ‘paratype’ in ANIC.

Combination in Prolasius: Wheeler, 1935c: 71.
Subspecies of Prolasius nitidissimus: McAreavey, 1947: 24 (redescription); Taylor, 1987a: 65.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 12; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 144; Taylor, 1992a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 368.

Obsolete combinations

Melophorus formicoides

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
Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. PDF
McAreavey, J. 1947. New species of the genera Prolasius Forel and Melophorus Lubbock (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 15:7-27. 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. 1992a. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:57-69. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Cambridge) 42:68-72. PDF

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