Protonym: Melophorus insularis
Authorship Wheeler, 1934d: 151
Forms s.w.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (Western Australia: Rottnest I.)
Primary type information Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated, “several”). Primary type localities: Australia: Western Australia, Rottnest I., White Hill, 23.x.1931 (P.J. Darlington and W.M. Wheeler), 3 workers Western Australia, Rottnest I., City of York Bay, 13.xii.1932 (Glauert). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, WAMP.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Melophorus insularis Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Melophorus aeneovirens (Lowne, 1865)
Original combination