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Protonym: Orectognathus clarki
Authorship Brown, 1953k: 94, figs. 1b, 2c
Forms w.q.m.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Ferntree Gully, between Upper Ferntree Gully Station and entrance to the public park (W.L. Brown). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 62 paratype workers, 8 paratype queens, 1 paratype male. Secondary type localities: paratypes: with same data as holotype, from same locality as holotype but (J. Clark), from same locality as holotype but (F.P. Spry), Victoria, summit of Mt Dandenong, 2000 ft (W.L. Brown), Victoria, Airey’s Inlet, Otway Peninsula (J.J. McAreavey), Victoria, Millgrove (J.E. Dixon), Victoria, Woori Yallock (L.B. Thorn), Australia: Tasmania, Hobart (A.M. Lea), Tasmania, Trevallyn (V.V. Hickman), Launceston (C.E. Cole), Australia: New South Wales, Dorrigo (W. Heron), Australia: Queensland, Toowoomba (E.J. Dumigan). Secondary type depositories: AMSC, ANIC, BMNH, HNHM, MCZC, MHNG, MSNG, MVMA, QMBA, SAMA, USNM, WAMP.
Type notes Taylor & Brown, 1985: 73, cite holotype in ANIC.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Orectognathus clarki Species Valid Original combination