Acropyga silvestrii

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Acropyga silvestrii Emery, 1915 valid

Acropyga silvestrii Emery, 1915e: 21, fig. 11 (w.) ERITREA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of LaPolla, 2004a: 78). Primary type locality: lectotype Eritrea: Ghinda, 23.viii.-9.ix.1914 (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0909910 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MSNG. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0905164. Type notes: Original description cites 5 worker syntypes.

Lectotype designation: LaPolla, 2004a: 78.
Combination in Acropyga (Malacomyrma): Emery, 1922e: 109
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 928; Emery, 1925d: 30; Finzi, 1939a: 166; Bolton, 1995b: 58; LaPolla, 2004a: 78 (redescription); LaPolla & Fisher, 2005: 605 (in key); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 204; Madl, 2019: 13.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1915e. Formiche raccolte nell'Eritrea dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 10:3-26. PDF
Emery, C. 1922e. Quelques fourmis nouvelles minuscules. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 19:107-112. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Finzi, B. 1939a. Materiali zoologici dell'Eritrea raccolti da G. Müller durante la spedizione dell'Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese e conservati al Museo di Trieste. Parte III. Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste 14:153-168. PDF
Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
LaPolla, J. S.; Fisher, B. L. 2005. A remarkable new species of Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Gabon, with a key to the Afrotropical species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)56:601-605. PDF
Madl, M. 2019. Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B Für Botanik Und Zoologie 121:9-18. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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