Melophorus constans

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

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Melophorus constans Santschi, 1928 junior synonym of current valid taxon Melophorus aeneovirens (Lowne, 1865)

Melophorus constans Santschi, 1928e: 475 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 6 syntype workers, 3 syntype queens. Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Idattle (= Wattle) Glen (Barrett). Primary type depository: NHMB.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 123; Taylor, 1987a: 37; Bolton, 1995b: 250.
Junior synonym of Melophorus aeneovirens: Heterick et al., 2017: 75.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Heterick, B. E.; Castalanelli, M.; Shattuck, S. O. 2017. Revision of the ant genus Melophorus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 700:1-420. 10.3897/zookeys.700.11784 PDF
Santschi, F. 1928e. Nouvelles fourmis d'Australie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 56:465-483. 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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