Pristomyrmex orbiculatus

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

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Pristomyrmex orbiculatus Donisthorpe, 1948 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pristomyrmex quadridens Emery, 1897

Pristomyrmex orbiculatus Donisthorpe, 1948b: 306 (w.q.m.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 9 syntype workers, 3 syntype queens, 4 syntype males. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, 20.vi.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depositories: BMNH, CASC, LACM, USNM. Primary type specimens: CASENT0901725, CASTYPE06941.

Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1949b: 498; Donisthorpe, 1950a: 339; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 365.
Junior synonym of Pristomyrmex quadridens: Wang, 2003a: 459

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. 1948b ("1947"). A second instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:297-317. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1949b ("1948"). A fifth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:487-506. 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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