Rhytidoponera metallica purpurascens

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

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Rhytidoponera metallica purpurascens Wheeler, 1915 junior synonym of current valid taxon Rhytidoponera metallica (Smith, 1858)

Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) metallica var. purpurascens Wheeler, 1915h: 805 (w.) AUSTRALIA (South Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Australia: South Australia, Moorilyanna (no collector’s name). Type-depository: MCZC.

Junior synonym of Rhytidoponera metallica: Brown, 1958g: 204, 275; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 45; Taylor, 1987a: 69; Bolton, 1995b: 380.

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. 1915h. Hymenoptera. [In "Scientific notes on an expedition into the north-western regions of South Australia".]. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 39:805-823. PDF

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

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