Protonym: Melophorus inconspicuus
Authorship Heterick et al., 2017: 262, fig. 60
Forms s.w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype minor worker. Primary type locality: Australia: South Australia, Mt Gason, i.-ii.1995, 546, ANIC ants vial 75.63 (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: ANIC.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 10 paratype major worker, 6 paratype media worker, 4 paratype minor workers. Secondary type localities: 1 paratype major, 1 paratype media workers with same data as holotype, 3 paratype major workers South Australia, Gawler Ranges, 10 km. E Mt Ive HS, 22.x.1980 (P.J.M. Greenslade), 2 paratype major, 1 paratype minor workers South Australia, Banff, Coorong, 13.x.1975 (P.J.M. Greenslade), 2 paratype major, 1 paratype minor workers New South Wales, Tomago, 17.xii.1922, mined 1963 (G.P. Jackson), 1 paratype major, 1 paratype media, 1 paratype minor worker South Australia, Kangaroo I., Rocky River, 3.i.1977 (P.J.M. Greenslade), 2 paratype media, 1 paratype minor workers Western Australia, Whitfords Beach, 2.vii.2005 (B.E. Heterick), 1 paratype major, 2 paratype media workers Western Australia, Stirling Range Gold Holes, 28.x.1969, ca 250 m., Acc. 69.580 (R.W. Taylor). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, SAMA, WAMP.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Melophorus inconspicuus Species Valid Original combination