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lg:block'> <div class='float-left'> An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World <span class='text-sm'>by Barry Bolton</span> </div> </div> </div> </header> <section class='px-4 pt-10 pb-32 min-h-[65vh]'> <div id='fireworks'></div> <div class='layout-container'> <div class='mb-8' id='breadcrumbs'> <div class='float-left'> <a href="/">Catalog</a> &rsaquo; <a class="valid" href="/catalog/429011">Formicidae</a> &rsaquo; <a class="valid" href="/catalog/429387">Myrmeciinae</a> &rsaquo; <a class="valid" href="/catalog/429388">Myrmeciini</a> &rsaquo; <a class="valid" href="/catalog/429389"><i>Myrmecia</i></a> &rsaquo; <a class="valid" href="/catalog/441146"><i>Myrmecia tarsata</i></a> </div> <div class='clear-both'></div> <div class='clear-both'></div> </div> <div class='row'> <div class='medium-9'>  <span class='text-lg font-bold mr-1'><a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/429389/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/429389"><i>Myrmecia</i></a> <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/catalog/441146/hover_preview.json" class="valid" href="/catalog/441146"><i>tarsata</i></a></span> Smith, 1858 <span class='text-sm'> valid </span>  <div class='mb-4'> <span class='font-bold mr-1' data-testid='catalog-protonym-name'> <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/protonyms/166876/hover_preview.json" class="protonym" href="/protonyms/166876"><i>Myrmecia tarsata</i></a> </span> <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128685/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128685">Smith, 1858a</a>: 145 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia. </div>   <div class='mb-8'> <strong>Primary type information:</strong> Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, NH Hunter River, “44/105” (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: <abbr title='[Also NHM; NHMUK] Natural History Museum, London (= British Museum (Natural History)), U.K.'>BMNH</abbr>. Primary type specimen: <span data-controller="external-preview"><a data-external-preview-target="link" href="https://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=CASENT0902785">CASENT0902785</a></span>. <strong>Type notes:</strong> 1) 1 worker in <abbr title='[Also NHM; NHMUK] Natural History Museum, London (= British Museum (Natural History)), U.K.'>BMNH</abbr> confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978. 2) Originally more than one specimen as <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128685/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128685">Smith, 1858a</a> says “Length 8-9½ lines”, and more than one locality “Hunter River, &c.” </div>     <ul class='mb-8'> <li><a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128088/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128088">Roger, 1861a</a>: 33 (q.); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/123635/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/123635">Clark, 1951</a>: 30 (brachypterous q. ergatoid q. m.)</li> <li>Status as species: <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128088/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128088">Roger, 1861a</a>: 33; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/127190/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/127190">Mayr, 1862</a>: 726 (in key); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/128094/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/128094">Roger, 1863b</a>: 22; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/127213/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/127213">Mayr, 1863a</a>: 430; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/127193/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/127193">Mayr, 1865</a>: 85; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/143717/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/143717">Lowne, 1865b</a>: 336; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/127196/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/127196">Mayr, 1876</a>: 96; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/124002/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/124002">Dalla Torre, 1893</a>: 22; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/125175/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/125175">Forel, 1907h</a>: 20; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/125203/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/125203">Forel, 1910b</a>: 4; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/124702/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/124702">Emery, 1911e</a>: 20; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/123859/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/123859">Crawley, 1926</a>: 379 (redescription); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/123631/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/123631">Clark, 1927</a>: 34; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/123643/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/123643">Clark, 1929b</a>: 121; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/130249/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/130249">Wheeler, 1933i</a>: 45; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/123635/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/123635">Clark, 1951</a>: 28 (redescription); <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/129218/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/129218">Taylor & Brown, 1985</a>: 16; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/129202/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/129202">Taylor, 1987a</a>: 46; <a data-controller="hover-preview" data-hover-preview-url-value="/references/127581/hover_preview.json" class="taxt-hover-reference" href="/references/127581">Ogata, 1991a</a>: 358; 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M.</a> 1933i. <a href="/references/130249">Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species.</a> Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, viii + 179 pp. </li> </ul> </div> <div class='medium-3'> <div class='callout-white'> <a class="external-link" href="https://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&genus=myrmecia&species=tarsata&project=worldants">AntWeb</a> <a class="external-link" href="https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Myrmecia_tarsata">AntWiki</a> <a class="external-link" href="http://hol.osu.edu/index.html?id=31938">HOL</a> <a class="external-link" href="//scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Myrmecia+tarsata+Smith%2C+1858">Google Scholar</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <div class='sticky color-coded-catalog-links nottiny:bottom-0' id='taxon-browser'> <div class='bg-white overflow-hidden h-auto' id='taxon-browser-css-tabs'> <div class='hidden px-4' data-toggler-name='taxon_key'> <div class='flex justify-between gap-1 flex-wrap'> <div>&dagger;fossil</div> <div class='valid'>valid</div> <div class='synonym'>synonym</div> <div class='unidentifiable'>unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae</div> <div class='homonym'>homonym</div> <div class='unavailable'>unavailable/nomen nudum</div> <div class='obsolete-combination'>obsolete combination</div> </div> </div> <input class='taxon-browser-tab-input hidden' id='taxon-browser-tab-0' name='taxon_browser_tab' type='radio' value='selected tab'> <label class='text-ac-blue-text py-1 px-4 !m-0' for='taxon-browser-tab-0'>Formicidae subfamilies</label> <input class='taxon-browser-tab-input hidden' id='taxon-browser-tab-1' name='taxon_browser_tab' type='radio' value='selected tab'> <label class='text-ac-blue-text py-1 px-4 !m-0' for='taxon-browser-tab-1'>Myrmeciinae tribes</label> <input class='taxon-browser-tab-input hidden' id='taxon-browser-tab-2' name='taxon_browser_tab' type='radio' value='selected tab'> <label class='text-ac-blue-text py-1 px-4 !m-0' 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href="/catalog/441024">chrysogaster</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441025">clarki</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441027">comata</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441030">croslandi</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441032">cydista</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441034">desertorum</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441035">dichospila</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441036">dimidiata</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441037">dispar</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441039">elegans</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441040">erecta</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441041">esuriens</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441043">eungellensis</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441046">exigua</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441047">fabricii</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441051">ferruginea</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441052">flammicollis</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441053">flavicoma</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441054">forceps</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" href="/catalog/441055">forficata</a> </li> <li class='whitespace-nowrap'> <a class="valid species" 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