Acropyga marshalli

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Acropyga marshalli (Crawley, 1921) junior synonym of current valid taxon Acropyga goeldii Forel, 1893

Rhizomyrma marshalli Crawley, 1921: 93, figs. 2, 2a (w.) BARBADOS. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 22 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Barbados: (no further data), 1914, no. 346 (J.R. Bovell). Primary type depository: BMNH (perhaps also OXUM).

Combination in Acropyga (Rhizomyrma): Emery, 1925d: 30.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 30; Wheeler, 1935f: 327; Donisthorpe, 1936b: 110 (in list); Weber, 1944b: 101 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 57.
Junior synonym of Acropyga goeldii: LaPolla, 2004a: 49.

Obsolete combinations

Rhizomyrma marshalli

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Crawley, W. C. 1921. New and little-known species of ants from various localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)7:87-97. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1936b. Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) robae sp. nov. (Hym. Formicidae), a new S. American ant, with remarks on the genus, etc. Entomologist 69:108-111. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1935f. Ants of the genus Acropyga Roger, with description of a new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 43:321-329. PDF

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