Lioponera rugulinodis

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Lioponera rugulinodis (Wheeler, 1918) valid

Phyracaces rugulinodis Wheeler, 1918a: 249, fig. 11 (m.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Australia: South Australia, Murat Bay (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: 1) The specimen was redundantly designated lectotype by Brown, 1975: 65, but Wheeler, 1918a had stated that the taxon was “Described from a single specimen”. 2) A second “defective” male is mentioned by Wheeler, 1918a, from South Australia, Ardrossan (J.G.O. Tepper), in SAMA.

Lectotype designation: Brown, 1975: 65 (redundant).
Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 23.
Combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, 2016: 164.
Status as species: Brown, 1975: 23, 65; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 27; Taylor, 1987a: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 144.

Obsolete combinations

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608:1-280. 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. 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. 1918a. The Australian ants of the ponerine tribe Cerapachyini. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 53:215-265. PDF

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