Orectognathus alligator

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Orectognathus alligator Taylor, 1980 valid

Orectognathus alligator Taylor, 1980a: 778, figs. 4-6 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Spencer Gap (21°20’S, 148°56’E), 20 km. SW of Walkerston, 150 m., 16.viii.1975, under rock, dry sclerophyll woodland (B.B. Lowery). Primary type depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 5 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: Queensland, 8 km. S of Cardwell (18°16’S, 146°01’E), 15.iv.1976, open Eucalyptus woodland (P.J.M. Greenslade). Secondary type depositories: ANIC, QMBA.

[Orectognathus alligator Taylor, 1978b: 9 (in key); unavailable name (published without designation of type material).]
Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 72; Taylor, 1987a: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 301; Bolton, 2000: 20.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Taylor, R. W. 1978b. A taxonomic guide to the ant genus Orectognathus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 3:1-11. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1980a ("1979"). New Australian ants of the genus Orectognathus, with summary description of the twenty-nine known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27:773-788. 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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