Myopopone similis

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Myopopone similis Donisthorpe, 1949 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myopopone castanea (Smith, 1860)

Myopopone similis Donisthorpe, 1949b: 488 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, viii.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASTYPE06962.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 24.
Junior synonym of Myopopone castanea: Wilson, 1958c: 144; Brown, 1960a: 215; Bolton, 1995b: 270.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230.
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
Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1958c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:101-153. PDF

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