Turneria frenchi is a species of ant in the genus Turneria. Described by Auguste-Henri Forel in 1911, it is endemic to Australia, but original specimens of the ant have been lost, and its placement in a genus has been in question. The ant has been transferred various times, notably being transferred to Stigmacros in 1990 but then put back into Turneria in 1992.[1][2][3]

Turneria frenchi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Turneria
Species:
T. frenchi
Binomial name
Turneria frenchi
Forel, 1911

References

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  1. ^ Forel, A. (1911) Ameisen aus Java beobachtet und gesammelt von Herrn Edward Jacobson. 2 Theil. Notes from the Leyden Museum 33, 193-218
  2. ^ Shattuck, S. O. 1990. Revision of the dolichoderine ant genus Turneria (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 15: 101-117 PDF
  3. ^ Taylor, R.W. (1992) Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31, 57-69.