Oecophylla zonata

Oecophylla zonata (Guérin-Méneville, 1838) junior synonym of current valid taxon Oecophylla smaragdina (Fabricius, 1775)

Formica zonata Guérin-Méneville, 1838: 205 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: New Ireland I., Port Praslin, 1822-25 (no collector’s name) (Voyage La Coquille). Primary type depository: probably MNHN. Type notes: 1) A male specimen may also be present as Guérin-Méneville, 1838: 206, adds “We have only seen one male individual”. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.

Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 36; Mayr, 1863a: 422.
Junior synonym of Oecophylla smaragdina: Roger, 1863b: 10, 46; Mayr, 1865: 50; Mayr, 1872: 144; Emery, 1887a: 242; Dalla Torre, 1893: 176; Forel, 1894c: 400; Wheeler, 1919f: 105; Wheeler, 1922: 947; Bolton, 1995b: 298; Zhou, 2001a: 189.

Obsolete combinations

Formica zonata

Citations

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Emery, C. 1887a ("1886"). Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte terza. Formiche della regione Indo-Malese e dell'Australia. [part]. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 24[=(2)4]:209-240. PDF
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Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
Zhou, S. 2001a. Ants of Guangxi. [In Chinese.]. Guilin, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 255 pp. PDF