Acropyga major

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Acropyga major Donisthorpe, 1949 valid

Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) major Donisthorpe, 1949c: 755 (m.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 4 syntype males. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”): Maffin Bay, 1.viii.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC (perhaps also BMNH).

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 212; Bolton, 1995b: 57.
Nomen dubium: LaPolla, 2004a: 22

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1949c ("1948"). A sixth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:744-759. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF

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