Acropyga moluccana australis

Acropyga moluccana australis Forel, 1902 junior synonym of current valid taxon Acropyga acutiventris Roger, 1862

Acropyga moluccana var. australis Forel, 1902j: 477 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Queensland). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Queensland, Mackay (G. Turner). Primary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MHNG. Type notes: LaPolla, 2004a: 31, cites 7 worker syntypes in BMNH.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1968a: 209 (l.)
Subspecies of Acropyga acutiventris: Forel, 1911g: 286; Emery, 1925d: 28.
Subspecies of Acropyga moluccana: Forel, 1910b: 58; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 108; Taylor, 1987a: 5.
Junior synonym of Acropyga acutiventris: Taylor, 1992a: 58; Bolton, 1995b: 57; Terayama et al., 2002: 23; LaPolla, 2004a: 31.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
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Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1992a. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:57-69. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Terayama, M.; Fellowes, J. R.; Zhou, S. 2002. The East Asian species of the ant genus Acropyga Roger, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Edaphologia 70:21-32. PDF
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