+MELOPHORUS Lubbock
(Formicinae: Melophorini)

Melophorus bagoti Lubbock, 1883 Ref.5085: 52 - Worker; Type locality: Australia (lat. 21S) (sic!) (probably Northern Territory or Queensland.

= cowlei Froggatt, 1896 Ref.5221: 387 - Worker, Queen, Male; Original localities: Illamurta [24/132] et al., Northern Territory (Camponotus cowlei) (Synonymy: Clark 1930c Ref.294: 22).

Reference(s)

294
Clark, J. 1930c. 1930 294 New Formicidae, with notes on some little-known species. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 43: 2-25 (30. viii. 1930).
5085
Lubbock, J. 1883. 1883 5085 Observations on ants, bees and wasps. Part 10. With a description of a new genus of honey-ant. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 17: 41-52 pl 2 (17. iv. 1883).
5221
Froggatt, W.W. 1896. 1896 5221 Honey ants. in Spencer, B. (ed.). Report on the work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. Part 2. Zoology. Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade. pp. 385-392 pl 27.