Rhytidoponera froggatti

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Rhytidoponera froggatti (Forel, 1910) junior synonym of current valid taxon Rhytidoponera araneoides (Le Guillou, 1842)

Ectatomma (Rhytidoponera) froggatti Forel, 1910b: 10 (w.) SOLOMON IS. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Solomon Is: (no further data). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB. Type notes: Mann, 1919: 287, records it from the islands of Isabel, San Cristoval, Ugi, Florida, Malaita, and Rendova, noting that it is “very common where it occurs”.

Mann, 1919: 286 (m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1952a: 127 (l.)
Combination in Rhytidoponera: Emery, 1911e: 38
Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 38; Wheeler, 1935g: 10.
Subspecies of Rhytidoponera araneoides: Mann, 1919: 286.
Junior synonym of Rhytidoponera araneoides: Wilson, 1958g: 307; Wilson, 1958g: 202; Bolton, 1995b: 379.

Obsolete combinations

Ectatomma froggatti

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1952a. The ant larvae of the subfamily Ponerinae - Part I. American Midland Naturalist 48:111-144. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
Wilson, E. O. 1958g. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia III. Rhytidoponera in western Melanesia and the Moluccas. IV. The tribe Ponerini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 119:303-371. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1958g. [Untitled. Taxonomic actions attributed Wilson.]. Pp. 202-205 in: 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

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