Myrmecia urens

Identification Keys including this Taxon

 * Key to Australian Myrmecia Species

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Myrmecia urens Lowne, 1865b: 336 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Australia: New South Wales, vic. Sydney, ix.-xi.1862 (B.T. Lowne).
 * Type-depository: uncertain, perhaps BMNH (Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17).
 * Clark, 1943: 104 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971d: 254 (l.).
 * Combination in Myrmecia (Promyrmecia): Clark, 1929: 121;
 * combination in Promyrmecia: Clark, 1943: 103;
 * combination in Myrmecia: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17.
 * Junior synonym of picta: Mayr, 1876: 94; Dalla Torre, 1893: 21; Emery, 1911d: 21.
 * Status as species: Clark, 1927: 39; Santschi, 1928e: 465; Clark, 1929: 121; Clark, 1934a: 14; Clark, 1943: 103 (redescription); Clark, 1951: 190 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; Taylor, 1987a: 46; Ogata, 1991a: 362; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1631; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
 * Senior synonym of pumilio: Clark, 1943: 103; Clark, 1951: 190; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; Taylor, 1987a: 46; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1631; Bolton, 1995b: 273.
 * Distribution: Australia.
 * pumilio. Myrmecia pumilio Mayr, 1866b: 896 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Australia (“New Holland”): New South Wales, Sydney (no collector’s name).
 * Type-depository: NHMW.
 * Status as species: Clark, 1934a: 14.
 * Junior synonym of picta: Mayr, 1876: 94; Dalla Torre, 1893: 21; Emery, 1911d: 21.
 * Junior synonym of urens: Clark, 1943: 103; Clark, 1951: 190; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 17; Taylor, 1987a: 46; Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1631; Bolton, 1995b: 273.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Clark J. 1929. Results of a collecting trip to the Cann River, East Gippsland. Victorian Naturalist (Melbourne) 46: 115-123.
 * 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.