Pristomyrmex castor

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Pristomyrmex castor Donisthorpe, 1944 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pristomyrmex umbripennis (Smith, 1863)

Pristomyrmex castor Donisthorpe, 1944d: 81 (q.m.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype queen (by designation of Wang, 2003a: 525). Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: Kokoda, 1200 ft., x.1933 (L.E. Cheesman). Primary type depository: BMNH. Type notes: Donisthorpe records 2 original syntype queens, 1 (now lectotype) dated x.1933, the other dated iv.1933.

Lectotype designation: Wang, 2003a: 525.
Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 365.
Junior synonym of Pristomyrmex umbripennis: Wang, 2003a: 525

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Donisthorpe, H. 1944d. Two new species of Pristomyrmex Mayr (Hym. Formicidae), with some notes on the genus. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B 13:81-84. PDF
Wang, M. 2003a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Pristomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157:383-542. PDF

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