Proceratium californicum

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

Catalog › Formicidae › Proceratiinae › Proceratiini › Proceratium › Proceratium californicum

Proceratium californicum Cook, 1953 valid

Proceratium californicum Cook, 1953: 45, fig. (m.) U.S.A. (California). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype male. Type-locality: U.S.A: California, Santa Cruz Mts, Glenwood, 27.v.1908. Type-depository: LACM. Type notes: Snelling, 1967: 2, stated that the holotype is “the property of the Snow Museum, Oakland, California” (now the Oakland Museum of California); but Ward, 1988: 112, records its presence in LACM.

Snelling, 1967: 4 (q.); Ward, 1988: 109 (w.)
Status as species: Brown, 1958g: 247, 332; Smith, 1958c: 111; Snelling, 1967: 2 (redescription); Smith, 1979: 1338; Brown, 1980c: 343 (in key); Ward, 1988: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 366; Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 243 (redescription); Ward, 2005: 38.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C.; de Andrade, M. L. 2003a. The ant genus Proceratium in the extant and fossil record (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Monografie (Turin) 36:1-492. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1980c ("1979"). A remarkable new species of Proceratium, with dietary and other notes on the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 86:337-346. PDF
Cook, T. W. 1953. The ants of California. Palo Alto, California: Pacific Books, 462 pp. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
Snelling, R. R. 1967. Studies on California ants. 3. The taxonomic status of Proceratium californicum Cook (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 124:1-10. PDF
Ward, P. S. 1988. Mesic elements in the western Nearctic ant fauna: taxonomic and biological notes on Amblyopone, Proceratium, and Smithistruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 61:102-124. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF

AntWeb AntWiki HOL Google Scholar

Formicidae subfamilies Proceratiinae tribes Proceratiini genera Proceratium species

show invalid