Myrmecia mandibularis postpetiolaris

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Myrmecia mandibularis postpetiolaris
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Myrmecia mandibularis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmeciinae
Tribe: Myrmeciini
Genus: Myrmecia
Species: Myrmecia mandibularis postpetiolaris
Wheeler, W.M., 1933

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

Nomenclature

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

  • postpetiolaris. Myrmecia mandibularis subsp. postpetiolaris Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 65 (w.m.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of mandibularis: Clark, 1943: 137.

References

  • Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Mem. Natl. Mus. Vic. 13: 83-149 (page 137, Junior synonym of mandibularis)
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1933i. Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, viii + 179 pp. (page 65, worker, male described)