Myrmecia gratiosa

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Myrmecia gratiosa Clark, 1951 valid

Myrmecia gratiosa Clark, 1951: 66, fig. 44 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-localities: holotype + paratypes Australia: Western Australia, Bendering (C.A. Gardner), Western Australia, Emu Rock (F. Cadd). Type-depository: ANIC. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: paratype workers (number not stated). Paratype-localities: holotype + paratypes Australia: Western Australia, Bendering (C.A. Gardner), Western Australia, Emu Rock (F. Cadd). Type notes: Original description gives no indication which series contains the holotype, but Taylor & Brown, 1985: 11, cite Bendering.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971d: 250 (l.)
Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 11; Taylor, 1987a: 43; Ogata, 1991a: 358; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1637 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 271; Heterick, 2009: 121.

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
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. 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.
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1971d. Ant larvae of the subfamily Myrmeciinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 47:245-256. PDF

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