Eciton testacea

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Eciton testacea (Gray, 1832) junior synonym of current valid taxon Eciton hamatum (Fabricius, 1782)

Camptognatha testacea Gray, 1832: 516, pl. 76, fig. 4 (w.) NO LOCALITY GIVEN.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: none given. Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given. The entry in Gray, 1832: 516, says only, “We have also figured a species under the name of Camptognatha testacea, of Dr Leach’s MSS., but which may probably be the Eciton hamata of Latreille”.

Junior synonym of Eciton hamatum: Mayr, 1863a: 409; Borgmeier, 1955: 214; Kempf, 1972b: 102; Bolton, 1995b: 186.

Obsolete combinations

Camptognatha testacea

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720. PDF
Gray, G. R. 1832. [Untitled. Camptognatha testacea, attributed to Gray.]. P. 516 in: Griffith, E. 1832. and others. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier, with supplementary additions to each order by Edward Griffith, F.L.S., A.S., and others. Volume the Fifteenth [= Class Insecta, Volume 2]. London: Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 796 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF

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