Prionopelta testacea

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Prionopelta testacea (Donisthorpe, 1947) junior synonym of current valid taxon Prionopelta nominata (Smith, 1871)

Renea testacea Donisthorpe, 1947e: 183, fig. 1 (w.m.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 10 syntype workers, 4 syntype males. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, 16.vi.1944, and 20.vi.1944 (males 20.vi.1944) (E.S. Ross). Primary type depositories: BMNH, CASC.

Donisthorpe, 1948d: 590 (q.)
Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1948d: 590; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 77.
Junior synonym of Prionopelta majuscula: Brown, 1953c: 12; Wilson, 1958c: 149; Brown, 1960a: 177; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Shattuck, 2008b: 27.
Junior synonym of Prionopelta nominata: new synonymy (unpublished).
[Note: because the conditions of Article 23.9.1 of ICZN (4th edition, 1999) do not appear to have been satisfied, the previously overlooked Prionopelta nominata Smith, 1871a, the first proposed replacement name for the junior homonym Prionopelta simillima Smith, 1860b, takes priority over Prionopelta churchilli Donisthorpe, 1949h, Prionopelta majuscula Emery, 1897c, Prionopelta poultoni Donisthorpe, 1932c, and Prionopelta testacea Donisthorpe, 1947e (B. Bolton note, 17.v.2016).]

Obsolete combinations

Renea testacea

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. 1953c. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part I. Breviora 11:1-13. 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
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. 1947e. Some new ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:183-197. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1948d. A third instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:589-604. 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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