Acropyga borgmeieri

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Acropyga borgmeieri Donisthorpe, 1939 junior synonym of current valid taxon Acropyga goeldii Forel, 1893

Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) borgmeieri Donisthorpe, 1939d: 153 (m.) GUYANA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype males. Primary type locality: Guyana (“British Guiana”): Mazaruni Clearing, 14.viii.1937 (O.W. Richards). Primary type depository: BMNH.

Status as species: Weber, 1944b: 111 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 57.
Junior synonym of Acropyga goeldii: LaPolla, 2004a: 50

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Donisthorpe, H. 1939d. Descriptions of several species of ants (Hymenopt.) taken by Dr. O. W. Richards in British Guiana. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B 8:152-154. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1944b. The neotropical coccid-tending ants of the genus Acropyga Roger. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 37:89-122. PDF

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