Species Myrmecia mandibularis Smith, 1858

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• Myrmecia mandibularis Smith, F. 1858. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part 6. Formicidae. London : British Museum 216 pp. 14 pls. [27 Mar. 1858] [145].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH *W, Adelaide, SA.
• Myrmecia mandibularis aureorufa Forel, A. 1910. Formicides australiens reçus de M. M. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18: 1-94 [6].

  Type data:

   Holotype GMNH W, Australia.
• Myrmecia (Promyrmecia) mandibularis postpetiolaris Wheeler, W.M. 1933. Colony-founding among ants with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press 179 pp. [65].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MCZ *W,M, Mt. Lofty, SA and Ballarat, VIC and Warren River, WA.
• Myrmecia (Promyrmecia) fulvipes caelatinoda Wheeler, W.M. 1933. Colony-founding among ants with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge : Harvard Univ. Press 179 pp. [72].

  Type data:

   Holotype lost, Belair, SA.
• Promyrmecia laevinodis Clark, J. 1943. A revision of the genus Promyrmecia Emery (Formicidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 13: 83-149 pls 12-17 [139].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NMV *W,Q, Armadale, Albany, and Bunbury, WA, Lucindale, Melrose and Kangaroo Is., SA and Mallee, VIC.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clark, J. 1951. The Formicidae of Australia. Subfamily Myrmeciinae. Melbourne : CSIRO 1 230 pp. [151]
• Brown, W.L. jr 1953. Revisionary notes on the ant genus Myrmecia of Australia. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 111: 1-35 [4]

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