Paltothyreus spiniventris

Paltothyreus spiniventris (Smith, 1858) junior synonym of current valid taxon Paltothyreus tarsatus (Fabricius, 1798)

Ponera spiniventris Smith, 1858a: 92 (m.) SIERRA LEONE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Sierra Leone: (no further data) (D.F. Morgan). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900681. Type notes: 1) The specimen is merely labelled “Afric. spiniventris Smith.” This is probably the holotype, but the data should read, “Sierra Leone, D.F. Morgan.” (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). 2) Smith, 1858a stated, “in all probability this is the male of Paltothyreus pestilentia.”

Junior synonym of Paltothyreus tarsatus: Roger, 1860: 310; Roger, 1863b: 17; Mayr, 1863a: 440; Forel, 1891c: 136; Emery, 1892f: 557 (in text); Dalla Torre, 1893: 32; Emery, 1911e: 62; Arnold, 1915: 44; Wheeler, 1922: 764; Bolton, 1995b: 310; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 545.

Obsolete combinations

Ponera spiniventris

Citations

Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1892f ("1891"). Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d'Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et août 1886. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 60:553-574. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Roger, J. 1860. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 4:278-312. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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