Myrmecia brevinoda

Distribution
This taxon was described from Australia.

Nomenclature

 *  brevinoda. Myrmecia forficata var. brevinoda Forel, 1910b: 2 (w.q.) AUSTRALIA. Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1971d: 247 (l.); Imai, Crozier & Taylor, 1977: 345 (k.). Raised to species: Clark, 1951: 96. Senior synonym of gigas (and its junior synonym eudoxia): Brown, 1953j: 22; of decipians, longinodis: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1653. See also: Brown, 1958h: 10.
 * gigas. Myrmecia pyriformis r. gigas Forel, 1913b: 310 (q.) AUSTRALIA. Forel, 1915: 7 (w.); Clark, 1951: 107 (m.). Raised to species and senior synonym of eudoxia: Clark, 1951: 104. Junior synonym of brevinoda: Brown, 1953j: 22.
 * eudoxia. Myrmecia forficata var. eudoxia Forel, 1915b: 8 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Raised to species: Wheeler, W.M. 1933i: 35. Junior synonym of gigas: Clark, 1951: 104.
 * decipians. Myrmecia decipians Clark, 1951: 86, fig. 66 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of brevinoda: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1653.
 * longinodis. Myrmecia longinodis Clark, 1951: 87, fig. 67 (w.) AUSTRALIA. Junior synonym of brevinoda: Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1653.

Additional References

 * [[Media:Clark 1951.pdf|Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. 1. Subfamily Myrmeciinae: 230 pp. CSIRO, Melbourne. [(31.xii).1951.] PDF]]
 * Qian, Z.-Q.; Ceccarelli, F. S.; Carew, M. E.; Schlüns, H.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C.; Steiner, F. M. 2011. Characterization of polymorphic microsatellites in the giant bulldog ant, Myrmecia brevinoda and the jumper ant, M. pilosula. Journal of Insect Science (available online: insectscience.org/11.71) 11:Article 71.
 * Qian, Zeng-qiang, Schlüns, Helge, Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C., Steiner, Florian M., Robson, Simon K.A., Schlüns, Ellen A., and Crozier, Ross H. (2011) Intraspecific support for the polygyny-vs.-polyandry hypothesis in the bulldog ant Myrmecia brevinoda. Molecular Ecology, 20 (17), 3681-3691.