Chelaner howense

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Chelaner howense (Wheeler, 1927) junior synonym of current valid taxon Chelaner tambourinensis (Forel, 1915)

Monomorium (Notomyrmex) howense Wheeler, 1927i: 138, fig. 5 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Lord Howe). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated. “numerous”), 5 syntype queens, 2 syntype ergatoid queens. Primary type locality: Australia: Lord Howe I., 1915-16 (A.M. Lea). Primary type depository: MCZC (perhaps also SAMA).

Combination in Chelaner: Ettershank, 1966: 97.
Combination in Monomorium: Taylor, 1987b: 2.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 24; Ettershank, 1966: 97; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 56; Taylor, 1987a: 20; Bolton, 1995b: 262.
Junior synonym of Chelaner tambourinensis: Heterick, 2001: 389

Obsolete combinations

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:353-459. 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. 1987b. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). First supplement, 10 July, 1987. CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41(Suppl.1):1-5.
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1927i. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62:121-153. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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