Dinoponera australis nigricolor

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

Nomenclature

 * nigricolor. Dinoponera australis subsp. nigricolor Borgmeier, 1937b: 228, figs. 5, 6, 8 (w.q.m.) BRAZIL (Goiás).
 * Type-material: lectotype male (by designation of Kempf, 1971: 387), 6+ paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype “ergatoid queen”.
 * [Note: Kempf, 1971: 387, points out that the “ergatoid queen” is in fact a mermithergate.]
 * Type-locality: lectotype Brazil: Goyaz (= Goiás), Campinas, 5.v.1933, at light (P.J.S. Schwarzmaier); paralectotypes: 6 workers, 1 “ergatoid” Brazil: Goyaz (= Goiás), Campinas, 6.ii.1936 (R. Spitz), and “several workers from the same locality (Campinas), taken at different times” (P.J.S. Schwarzmaier).]
 * Type-depository: MZSP.
 * Subspecies of australis: Kempf, 1971: 387; Kempf, 1972a: 97; Bolton, 1995b: 171; Lenhart, et al. 2013: 135.
 * Junior synonym of grandis: Dias, A.M. & Lattke, 2021: 22.