Cylindromyrmex williamsi

Cylindromyrmex williamsi Wheeler, 1924 junior synonym of current valid taxon Cylindromyrmex whymperi (Cameron, 1891)

Cylindromyrmex williamsi Wheeler, 1924b: 101, fig. 19b,c (w.q.) ECUADOR (Galapagos Is). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Ecuador: Galapagos Is., South Seymour I. (= Baltra I.), 20.iv.1923 (W.M.. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC.

Status as species: Menozzi, 1931d: 195 (in key); Wheeler, 1935g: 8; Wheeler, 1937b: 444 (in key); Linsley & Usinger, 1966: 174; Kempf, 1972b: 91.
Junior synonym of Cylindromyrmex striatus: Brown, 1975: 38; Brandão, 1991: 339; Bolton, 1995b: 167.
Junior synonym of Cylindromyrmex whymperi: De Andrade, 1998a: 596.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
De Andrade, M. L. 1998a. Fossil and extant species of Cylindromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 105:581-664. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Linsley, E. G.; Usinger, R. L. 1966. Insects of the Galápagos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (4)33:113-196. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1931d. Qualche nuova formica di Costa Rica (Hym.). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 92:188-202. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1924b. The Formicidae of the Harrison Williams Galapagos Expedition. Zoologica (New York) 5:101-122. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
Wheeler, W. M. 1937b. Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 81:439-465. PDF