Protonym: Myrmecia spadicea
Authorship Mayr, 1862: 724 (diagnosis in key)
Forms w.eq.
Bioregion Australasia
Locality AUSTRALIA (New South Wales, South Australia)
Primary type information Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, Sydney (Novara Expd.), South Australia, Adelaide. Type-depository: NHMW.
Type notes Brown, 1953j: 12, states that the holotype is an ergatoid queen, not a worker But as specimens from two localities are included in the original description, they must be regarded as syntypes.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Myrmecia spadicea Species Synonym
junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecia simillima Smith, 1858
Original combination