Pristomyrmex nitidissimus

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Pristomyrmex nitidissimus Donisthorpe, 1949 valid

Pristomyrmex nitidissimus Donisthorpe, 1949h: 411 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”): Maffin Bay, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASTYPE06993. Type notes: Wang, 2003a: 455, records the existence of a second worker in CASC, with the same data as the holotype.

Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1950a: 339; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wang, 2003a: 453 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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. 1949h. A seventh instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)2:401-422. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1950a. An eighth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)3:338-341. 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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