Leptomyrmex flavitarsus

Leptomyrmex flavitarsus (Smith, 1859) valid

Formica flavitarsus Smith, 1859a: 136 (w.) INDONESIA (Aru Is). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, “Aru 14”, “Aru 45” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 452, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978 cites 2 worker syntypes in OXUM, “both specimens appear to come from the same series, and appear to have originally been mounted on a single card that was later cut in half”. 3) Lucky & Ward, 2010: 33, cite 2 worker syntypes in OXUM, but incorrectly attribute collector as F. Smith.

Lucky & Ward, 2010: 34 (m.)
Combination in Camponotus: Roger, 1863b: 4.
Combination in Camponotus (Tanaemyrmex): Emery, 1925d: 90.
Combination in Leptomyrmex: Shattuck, 1992c: 114.
Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 415; Roger, 1863b: 4; Smith, 1871a: 307; Dalla Torre, 1893: 231; Emery, 1896j: 378 (in list); Emery, 1925d: 90; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 452; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 245; Shattuck, 1994: 117; Bolton, 1995b: 234; Lucky & Ward, 2010: 33 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Formica flavitarsus

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
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
Lucky, A.; Ward, P. S. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2688:1-67. 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
Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Smith, F. 1859a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3:132-158. 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

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