Dolichoderus occidentalis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Dolichoderus occidentalis Clark, 1930 junior synonym of current valid taxon Dolichoderus formosus Clark, 1930

Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea) occidentalis Clark, 1930b: 268, figs. 12, 12a (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Albany (J. Clark). Primary type depository: MVMA. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 60, and Shattuck & Marsden, 2013: 119, cite a unique holotype, but the original description implies more than 1 specimen is represented, saying “Length: 4.7 - 5 mm”.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 94; Taylor, 1987a: 25; Shattuck, 1994: 60; Bolton, 1995b: 175; Heterick, 2009: 47.
Junior synonym of Dolichoderus formosus: Shattuck & Marsden, 2013: 119

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1930b. The Australian ants of the genus Dolichoderus (Formicidae). Subgenus Hypoclinea Mayr. Australian Zoologist 6:252-268. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Shattuck, S. O.; Marsden, S. 2013. Australian species of the ant genus Dolichoderus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3716 (2):101-143. 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.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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