Myrmecia testaceipes

Identification
Heterick (2009) - Myrmecia testaceipes resembles Myrmecia swalei but has reddish brown legs (compared with blackish legs) and a postpetiole that is lighter in colour than the gaster (compared with one that is concolorous with the gaster).

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Promyrmecia testaceipes Clark, 1943: 134, pl. 15, fig. 69 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Australia: Western Australia, Albany (J. Clark).
 * Type-depository: MVMA.
 * Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17.
 * Status as species: Clark, 1951: 178 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; Taylor, 1987a: 46; Ogata, 1991a: 362; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1642 (in key), 1666; Bolton, 1995b: 273; Heterick, 2009: 123.
 * Senior synonym of dixoni: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1666; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
 * Distribution: Australia.
 * dixoni. Promyrmecia dixoni Clark, 1943: 135, pl. 16, figs. 77, 78 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA (Victoria, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory).
 * Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated).
 * Type-locality: Australia: Victoria, Eltham (J.E. Dixon), Victoria, Eltham (F.E. Wilson); non-type locality syntypes New South Wales, Albury (F.E. Wilson), Australian Federal (= Capital) Territory, Canberra (T. Greaves).
 * [Note: type-locality Victoria by restriction of Clark, 1951: 180.]
 * Type-depository: MVMA.
 * Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971d: 247 (l.).
 * Combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8.
 * Status as species: Clark, 1951: 179 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 8; Taylor, 1987a: 42; Ogata, 1991a: 362.
 * Junior synonym of testaceipes: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1666; Bolton, 1995b: 271.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Heterick B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76: 1-206.
 * Ogata K. and 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
 * Taylor R. W. 1987. 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.
 * Taylor R. W., and D. R. Brown. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2: 1-149.