Lophomyrmex taprobanae

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Lophomyrmex taprobanae Forel, 1911 junior synonym of current valid taxon Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus (Jerdon, 1851)

Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus var. taprobanae Forel, 1911c: 223 (w.q.m.) SRI LANKA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): Peradeniya, Exper. Station, vii. 1910 (K. Escherich). Primary type depository: MHNG.

Subspecies of Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus: Emery, 1924f: 209; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 156.
Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 134.
Junior synonym of Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus: Rigato, 1994b: 59; Bolton, 1995b: 248.

Obsolete combinations

Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus taprobanae

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
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Forel, A. 1911c. Ameisen aus Ceylon, gesammelt von Prof. K. Escherich (einige von Prof. E. Bugnion). Pp. 215-228 in: Escherich, K. 1911. Termitenleben auf Ceylon. Jena: Gustav Fischer, xxxii + 262 pp. PDF
Rigato, F. 1994b. Revision of the myrmicine ant genus Lophomyrmex, with a review of its taxonomic position (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 19:47-60. PDF

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