Species Chelaner rubriceps (Mayr, 1876)

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• Monomorium rubriceps cinctum Wheeler, W.M. 1917. The phylogenetic development of subapterous and apterous castes in the Formicidae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 3: 109-117 [113].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W,Q, VIC.
• Monomorium rubriceps extreminigrum Forel, A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(no.16): 1-119, pls 1-3 [Date published 4 Dec. 1915] [73].

  Type data:

   Holotype SMNH *W, Cedar Creek, QLD.
• Monomorium rubriceps Mayr, G.L. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 5: 56-115 [101].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHMW W,M, Cape York and Rockhampton, QLD and Sidney (=Sydney), NSW.
• Monomorium rubriceps rubra Forel, A. 1915. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish Scientific Expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. 2. Ameisen. Arkiv för Zoologi 9(no.16): 1-119, pls 1-3 [Date published 4 Dec. 1915] [72].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) GMNH W,M,Q, NSW; ANIC W, NSW
  Comment: other syntypes may exist.
• Monomorium (Notomyrmex) sanguinolentum Wheeler, W.M. 1927. The ants of Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62: 121-153 [135].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W,M, Norfolk Is.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Heterick, B.E. 2001. Revision of the Australian ants of the genus Monomorium (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 15: 353-459 [435]

Generic Combinations

• Chelaner rubriceps (Mayr, 1876). —
  Sparks, K.S., Andersen, A.N., & Austin, A.D. 2019. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. Invertebrate Systematics 33: 225-236

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Jarrah Forest (JF), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Wet Tropics (WT)

General References

Sparks, K.S., Andersen, A.N., & Austin, A.D. 2019. A multi-gene phylogeny of Australian Monomorium Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) results in reinterpretation of the genus and resurrection of Chelaner Emery. Invertebrate Systematics 33: 225-236 [233] (formerly Monomorium Mayr, 1855)

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