Prionopelta churchilli

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Prionopelta churchilli (Donisthorpe, 1949) junior synonym of current valid taxon Prionopelta nominata (Smith, 1871)

Examblyopone churchilli Donisthorpe, 1949h: 401 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: BMNH. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paratype queens. Secondary type depository: CASC.

Junior synonym of Prionopelta majuscula: Brown, 1951: 102; Wilson, 1958c: 149; Brown, 1960a: 177; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Shattuck, 2008b: 27.
Junior synonym of Prionopelta nominata: syn. n. (unpublished).
[Note: see discussion under Prionopelta nominata.]

Obsolete combinations

Examblyopone churchilli

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. 1951. New synonymy of a few genera and species of ants. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 46:101-106. PDF
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. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1949h. A seventh instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)2:401-422. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 2008b. Revision of the ant genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Pacific region. Zootaxa 1846:21-34. 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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