Myrmecia murina

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

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Myrmecia murina Clark, 1951 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia pulchra Clark, 1929

Myrmecia murina Clark, 1951: 80, figs. 58-60 (w.q.m.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, Belgrave, i.1933 (J. Clark). Type-depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: paratype workers, paratype queens, paratype males (numbers not stated). Paratype-locality: same as for holotype.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971d: 251 (l.)
Junior synonym of Myrmecia pulchra: Brown, 1953j: 27; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 14; Taylor, 1987a: 45; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1629; Bolton, 1995b: 272.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953j. Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 111:1-35. PDF
Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
Ogata, K.; Taylor, R. W. 1991. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a preliminary review and key to the named species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Journal of Natural History 25:1623-1673. 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.
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1971d. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47:245-256. PDF

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