Myrmecorhynchus emeryi

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Myrmecorhynchus emeryi André, 1896 valid

Myrmecorhynchus emeryi André, 1896d: 254 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Victoria, Victorian Alps (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MNHN.

Emery, 1898b: 238 (s.); Wheeler, 1917f: 17 (l.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 208 (l.); Clark, 1934b: 41 (q.m.)
Status as species: Emery, 1898b: 238; Wheeler, 1917f: 16 (redescription); Emery, 1925d: 36; Clark, 1934b: 41; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 125; Taylor, 1987a: 47; Bolton, 1995b: 275; Heterick, 2009: 103; Shattuck, 2015: 287 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Myrmecorhynchus musgravei: Shattuck, 2015: 287.
Senior synonym of Myrmecorhynchus rufithorax: Shattuck, 2015: 287.

Junior synonyms

Myrmecorhynchus musgravei Clark, 1934
Myrmecorhynchus rufithorax Clark, 1934

Citations

André, Ern. 1896d. Fourmis nouvelles d'Asie et d'Australie. Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 15:251-265. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1934b. New Australian ants. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 8:21-47. PDF
Emery, C. 1898b. Descrizioni di formiche nuove malesi e australiane. Note sinonimiche. Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (n.s.)2:231-245.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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. 2015. A review of the ant genus Myrmecorhynchus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3955 (2):283-290. 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. 1968a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): supplement. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 61:205-222. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1917f. The Australian ant-genus Myrmecorhynchus (Ern. André) and its position in the subfamily Camponotinae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 41:14-19. PDF

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