AntCat
Protonym: Melophorus pusillus
Authorship Heterick et al., 2017: 392, fig. 93
Forms s.w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (Western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland)
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype minor worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Tropicana Minesite, 29°10’11’’S, 124°33’38’’E, i.2009, pitfall trap CA2: 3 (J. Summerhayes). Primary type depository: WAMP.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 1 paratype major worker, 11 paratype minor workers. Secondary type locality: 1 paratype major worker with same data as holotype, 2 paratype minor workers Northern Territory, Kunoth Paddock, nr Alice Springs, 25.x.1980, SA EAD (P.J.M. Greenslade), 2 paratype minor workers South Australia, Gawler Ranges, 1.x.1972, (9) (P.J.M. Greenslade), 2 paratype minor workers South Australia, 30 km. S Granite Downs, 23.ix.1980, (I), 9-3C (P.J.M. Greenslade), 2 paratype minor workers Queensland, 3.2 km. NW homestead on Plum Pudding Track, Cravens Peak Station, 21-24.iv.2007, ANIC ants vial 76.104 (C. Lemann), 3 paratype minor workers South Australia, Mt Gunson, 1985 (T.J. Case). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, QMBA, SAMA, WAMP.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
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