Pristomyrmex obesus

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

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Pristomyrmex obesus Mann, 1919 valid

Pristomyrmex obesus Mann, 1919: 339 (w.q.m.) SOLOMON IS (Isabel I.). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “less than a dozen”), 1 syntype queen, 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: Solomon Is: Isabel I., Fulakora, 1916 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC, USNM.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 28; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wang, 2003a: 509 (redescription); Sarnat et al., 2013: 72.
Senior synonym of Pristomyrmex obesus melanoticus: Wang, 2003a: 509.
Senior synonym of Pristomyrmex pegasus: Wang, 2003a: 509.

Junior synonyms

Pristomyrmex obesus melanoticus Mann, 1919
Pristomyrmex pegasus Mann, 1919

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391. PDF
Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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