Echinopla praetexta

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Echinopla praetexta Smith, 1860 valid

Echinopla praetexta Smith, 1860b: 113, pl. 1, fig. 5 (w.) INDONESIA (Bacan). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: not stated, “Hab. - ?.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 464, cites 1 worker in OXUM; confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978. 2) The type locality was provided by Smith, 1871a: 318: Indonesia: Bachian (= Bacan I.). 3) The OXUM specimen recognised as holotype by Donisthorpe, 1932c: 464, fits the original description perfectly, so it is probably best to regard it as the true type and suppose that the locality label was added later, a supposition supported by the fact that the name is fully written, “Batchian”, rather than abbreviated to “Bac.”, as was Smith’s usual procedure (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).

Status as species: Smith, 1862d: 416; Mayr, 1863a: 408; Roger, 1863b: 9; Smith, 1871a: 318; Dalla Torre, 1893: 272; Emery, 1896j: 382 (in list); Emery, 1925d: 211; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 464; Donisthorpe, 1947c: 592; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 254; Bolton, 1995b: 184; Xu & Zhou, 2015: 31 (in key).

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
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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
Donisthorpe, H. 1947c ("1946"). Ants from New Guinea, including new species and a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)13:577-595. PDF
Emery, C. 1896j. Saggio di un catalogo sistematico dei generi Camponotus, Polyrhachis e affini. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)5:363-382 [pagination of separate: 761-780]. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. 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
Smith, F. 1862d. A list of the genera and species belonging to the family Cryptoceridae, with descriptions of new species; also a list of the species of the genus Echinopla. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (3)1:407-416. PDF
Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF
Xu, Z.; Zhou, X. 2015. Species grouping and key to known species of the ant genus Echinopla Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with reports of Chinese species. Asian Myrmecology 7:19-36. PDF

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