Chelaner longiceps

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Chelaner longiceps (Wheeler, 1934) valid

Monomorium (Notomyrmex) longiceps Wheeler, 1934d: 146 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Heterick, 2001: 431). Primary type locality: lectotype Australia: Western Australia, Ludlow (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: Other original syntype locality: 1 worker Australia: Western Australia, Rottnest I., nr Lady Edeline Beach, 23.x.1931, (Harvard Expd.) (W.M. Wheeler).

Lectotype designation: Heterick, 2001: 431.
Heterick, 2001: 432 (q.)
Combination in Monomorium (Chelaner): Emery, 1922c: 168.
Combination in Monomorium: Taylor, 1987b: 3.
Combination in Chelaner: Ettershank, 1966: 97; Sparks et al., 2019: 233.
Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 97; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 57; Taylor, 1987a: 20; Bolton, 1995b: 264; Heterick, 2001: 431 (redescription); Heterick, 2009: 162; Sparks et al., 2019: 233.

Obsolete combinations

Monomorium longiceps

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
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
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
Sparks, K. S.; Andersen, A. N.; Austin, A. D. 2019. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera : Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. Invertebrate Systematics 33:225-236. 10.1071/ISI6080 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. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20:137-163. PDF

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