Crematogaster obscura

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Crematogaster obscura Smith, 1860 homonym replaced by Crematogaster obscurior Dalla Torre, 1892

Crematogaster obscurus Smith, 1860b: 109 (w.) INDONESIA (Bacan). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Bachian (= Bacan I.), “Bac.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Type notes: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 463, cites 2 workers in OXUM; confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978.

[Justified emendation of spelling to Crematogaster obscura by B. Bolton.]
[Junior primary homonym of Crematogaster obscura Smith, 1857a.]
Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 404; Roger, 1863b: 37; Wheeler, 1919f: 73.
Replacement name: Crematogaster obscurior Dalla Torre, 1892

Citations

Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Smith, F. 1860b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Bachian, Kaisaa, Amboyna, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 5(17b)(suppl. to vol. 4):93-143. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF

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