Lioponera clara

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Lioponera clara (Clark, 1930) valid

Phyracaces clarus Clark, 1930c: 3, fig. 1 (no. 2) (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: Western Australia, Cannington (D.L. Serventy), Western Australia, Mundaring (J. Clark), Western Australia, Kalamunda (J. Clark), Western Australia, National Park (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA. Primary type specimen: ANTWEB1008229.

Combination in Neophyracaces: Clark, 1941b: 76
Combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, 2016: 163
Senior synonym of Lioponera princeps: Brown, 1975: 23, 65; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 27; Taylor, 1987a: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 144; Heterick, 2009: 127.
[Note: all these authors give Lioponera princeps as senior synonym, but Lioponera clara has priority. The error arose from Brown’s assumption that Lioponera clara was a junior homonym, which is not the case.]
Status as species: Borowiec, 2016: 163

Junior synonyms

Lioponera princeps (Clark, 1934)
Obsolete combination(s): Cerapachys princeps, Phyracaces princeps

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
Clark, J. 1930c. New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)43:2-25. PDF
Clark, J. 1941b. Australian Formicidae. Notes and new species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 12:71-94. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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.

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