Acropyga oceanica

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Acropyga oceanica Emery, 1900 valid

Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) oceanica Emery, 1900b: 333, pl. 8, fig. 44 (w.q.m.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of LaPolla, 2004a: 76). Primary type locality: lectotype Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: MSNG (lectotype). Type notes: Emery, 1900b: 334, says that the original syntype specimens (1 worker, 1 queen, 1 male) were taken one by one, and that he suspected the queen and male were the same species as the worker. The two sexual forms may be in HNHM.

Lectotype designation: LaPolla, 2004a: 76.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 30; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 212; Bolton, 1995b: 57; LaPolla, 2004a: 76 (redescription); Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 36; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 27; Sarnat et al., 2013: 69; Wang et al., 2022: 35.
Senior synonym of Acropyga septemstruma: LaPolla, 2004a: 76

Junior synonyms

Acropyga septemstruma Terayama et al., 2002

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
Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:310-338. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. PDF
Wang, W. Y.; Soh, E. J. Y.; Yong, G. W. J.; Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P.; Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006:1-152. [online early] 10.20362/am.015006 PDF

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