Myrmecia borealis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Australasian Region: Australia.

Nomenclature

 * . Myrmecia borealis Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1647 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland).
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 65 paratype workers.
 * Type-locality: holotype Australia: Queensland, McIlwraith Range (13/143), Leo Creek Rd, ca 550 m., 22.vii.1973 (R.W. Taylor); paratypes: 17 workers with same data, 3 workers Queensland, Iron Range, Mt Tozer summit (12/143), 8.xii.1985 (G.B. Monteith & D. Cook), 3 workers Mt Tozer above 1500 ft, 16.x.1968 (G.B. Monteith), 2 workers Mt Tozer area, 30-31.v.1971 (B. Cantrell), 12 workers McIlwraith Range, Leo Creek Road, 500 m., 26.vi.-4.vii.1976 (G.B. & S.R. Monteith), 11 workers McIlwraith Range, 10-20.vii.1976 (P. Filewood), 1 worker McIlwraith Range, Summit C, 700-800 m., 5.vi.1979 (P.A. Mathews), 2 workers Lankelly Creek, vi.1932 (Hervard Australia Expd.), 14 workers Upper Lankelly Creek (13/143), 10-11.vi.1971 (G.B. Monteith).
 * Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, MHNG, QMBA (paratypes).
 * Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 270.
 * Distribution: Australia.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * 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