Dinoponera australis bucki

Dinoponera australis bucki
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Dinoponera grandis)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Dinoponera
Species:	Dinoponera australis bucki Borgmeier, 1937

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Dinoponera grandis.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• bucki. Dinoponera australis subsp. bucki Borgmeier, 1937b: 228, figs. 7, 9 (w.m.) BRAZIL (Rio Grande do Sul).
  • Type-material: lectotype male (by designation of Dias, A.M. & Lattke, 2021: 23), 2 paralectotype workers.
  • Type-locality: lectotype Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul, Palmeira das Missões, 27.i.1929, no. 4.826 (P. Buck); paralectotypes with same data.
  • Type-depository: MZSP.
  • Subspecies of australis: Kempf, 1971: 386; Kempf, 1972a: 97; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Lenhart, et al. 2013: 135.
  • Junior synonym of grandis: Dias, A.M. & Lattke, 2021: 22.

References

• Borgmeier, T. 1937b. Formigas novas ou pouco conhecidas da América do Sul e Central, principalmente do Brasil (Hym. Formicidae). Arch. Inst. Biol. Veg. (Rio J.) 3: 217-255. (page 228, figs. 7, 8 worker, male described)
• Dias, A.M., Lattke, J.E. 2021. Large ants are not easy – the taxonomy of Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 784, 1–66 (doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.784.1603).
• Kempf, W. W. 1971. A preliminary review of the ponerine ant genus Dinoponera Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Stud. Entomol. 14: 369-394 (page 386, see also)
• Lenhart, P.A., Dash, S.T. & Mackay, W.P. 2013. A revision of the giant Amazonian ants of the genus Dinoponera (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 31, 119–164.