Pseudonotoncus hirsutus

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Pseudonotoncus hirsutus Clark, 1934 valid

Pseudonotoncus hirsutus Clark, 1934c: 65, pl. 4, figs. 23, 24 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a small colony”), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Gellibrand, 19-23.i.1932 (J. Clark). Primary type depositories: ANIC, MVMA. Type notes: Shattuck & O'Reilly, 2013: 291, cite 2 workers, 1 queen as holotype worker and paratypes.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 145; Taylor, 1987a: 66; Taylor, 1992a: 66; Bolton, 1995b: 377; Shattuck & O'Reilly, 2013: 291 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Pseudonotoncus turneri: Shattuck & O'Reilly, 2013: 291.

Junior synonyms

Pseudonotoncus turneri Donisthorpe, 1937

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1934c. Ants from the Otway Ranges. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:48-73. PDF
Shattuck, S. O.; O'Reilly, A. J. 2013. Revision of the Australian endemic ant genera Pseudonotoncus and Teratomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Zootaxa 3669:287-301. 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.

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