Chelaner insularis

Chelaner insularis (Clark, 1938) junior synonym of current valid taxon Chelaner leae (Forel, 1913)

Monomorium (Notomyrmex) insularis Clark, 1938: 368, fig. 7 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a small nest”), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Australia: South Australia, Reevesby I., xii.1936 (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA (perhaps also SAMA).

Combination in Chelaner: Ettershank, 1966: 97.
Combination in Monomorium: Taylor, 1987b: 3.
Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 97; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 57; Taylor, 1987a: 20; Bolton, 1995b: 263.
Junior synonym of Chelaner leae: Heterick, 2001: 427; Heterick, 2005: 151.

Obsolete combinations

Monomorium insularis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
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. 2005. Identity of Monomorium occidaneum Crawley, a species inquirenda, and status of Monomoriun micron Crawley (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Entomology 44:150-151. 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.