Myrmecia atrata

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

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Myrmecia atrata Clark, 1951 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia pavida Clark, 1951

Myrmecia atrata Clark, 1951: 77, fig. 55 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Ravensthorpe, xi.1947 (T. Greaves). Type-depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: paratype workers (number not stated). Paratype-locality: same as for holotype.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 6; Taylor, 1987a: 41; Ogata, 1991a: 358.
Junior synonym of Myrmecia pavida: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1659; Bolton, 1995b: 270.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Vol. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne: CSIRO, 230 pp. PDF
Ogata, K. 1991a. Ants of the genus Myrmecia Fabricius: a review of the species groups and their phylogenetic relationships (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmeciinae). Systematic Entomology 16:353-381. 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.

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