Rhytidoponera metallica carbonaria

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

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Rhytidoponera metallica carbonaria (Wheeler, 1934) junior synonym of current valid taxon Rhytidoponera inornata Crawley, 1922

Chalcoponera metallica var. carbonaria Wheeler, 1934d: 139 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia: Rottnest I.). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated; “numerous specimens”). Type-localities: Australia: Western Australia, Rottnest I., White Hill, 23.x.1931 (W.M. Wheeler), Rottnest I., Tourist’s Camp Reserve, 24.x.1931 (W.M. Wheeler), and Rottnest I., “west end of the island” (Glauert). Type-depository: MCZC.

Junior synonym of Rhytidoponera inornata: Brown, 1958g: 203, 267; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 44; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 378.

Obsolete combinations

Chalcoponera metallica carbonaria

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. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. 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, W. M. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20:137-163. PDF

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Formicidae subfamilies Ectatomminae tribes Ectatommini genera Rhytidoponera species Rhytidoponera metallica subspecies Rhytidoponera metallica carbonaria infrasubspecies

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