Protonym: Melophorus canus
Authorship Heterick et al., 2017: 84, fig. 8
Forms s.w.m
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (Western Australia, New South Wales)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype minor worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Goora Rock area, 70 mi. Esperance, 23.xii.1969 (B.B. Lowery). Primary type depository: ANIC. Primary type specimen: ANIC32-900003.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 5 paratype major workers, 3 paratype media workers, 6 paratype minor workers, 1 paratype male. Secondary type localities: 1 paratype major, 2 paratype media, 1 paratype minor workers with same data as holotype, 1 paratype major, 2 paratype minor workers Western Australia, Denmark, 19.xii.1969 (B.B. Lowery), 3 paratype major, 1 paratype media, 2 paratype minor workers, 1 paratype male New South Wales, Trundle, 9.i.1964, Y35 (B.B. Lowery), 1 paratype minor worker Western Australia, 107.2 km. SSE Newman, x.1996 (S. van Leeuwen & R.N. Bromilow). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, WAMP.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Melophorus canus Species Valid Original combination