Acropyga moluccana

Acropyga moluccana Mayr, 1879 junior synonym of current valid taxon Acropyga acutiventris Roger, 1862

Acropyga moluccana Mayr, 1879: 658 (w.) INDONESIA (Seram). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Ceram (no collector’s name) (received from F. Smith). Primary type depository: NHMW. Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given.

Karavaiev, 1933a: 310 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 137 (l.)
Status as species: Emery, 1887a: 247; Dalla Torre, 1893: 174; Emery, 1900: 697 (footnote); Forel, 1901c: 24; Dahl, 1901: 12; Forel, 1905f: 24; Emery, 1925d: 29; Karavaiev, 1933a: 310; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 211; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 107; Bolton, 1995b: 57.
Junior synonym of Acropyga acutiventris: LaPolla, 2004a: 31

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
Dahl, F. 1901. Das Leben der Ameisen im Bismarck-Archipel, nach eigenen Beobachtungen vergleichend dargestellt. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 2:1-70. PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1887a ("1886"). Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia. [part]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 24[=(2)4]:209-240. PDF
Emery, C. 1900. Formiche raccolte da Elio Modigliani in Sumatra, Engano e Mentawei. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 40[=(2)20]:661-722.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1901c. Formiciden aus dem Bismarck-Archipel, auf Grundlage des von Prof. Dr. F. Dahl gesammelten Materials. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 2:4-37.
Forel, A. 1905f. Ameisen aus Java. Gesammelt von Prof. Karl Kraepelin 1904. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 22:1-26. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1933a ("1932"). Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet, VII. Konowia 11:305-320. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Mayr, G. 1879. Beiträge zur Ameisen-Fauna Asiens. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 28:645-686. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1953c. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:126-171. PDF

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (5 synonyms)

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