Technomyrmex stygium

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Technomyrmex stygium (Santschi, 1911) junior synonym of current valid taxon Technomyrmex ilgi (Forel, 1910)

Engramma stygium Santschi, 1911c: 363 (w.m.) KENYA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype males (number not stated). Primary type locality: Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Nairobi (Wa-Kikouyou et Nasai), 1904 (C. Alluaud). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MNHN, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911587. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 162, cites 4 worker, 1 male syntypes.

Santschi, 1914b: 117 (q.)
Combination in Technomyrmex: Shattuck, 1992c: 161
Status as species: Emery, 1913a: 38.
Subspecies of Technomyrmex ilgi: Santschi, 1914b: 117; Wheeler, 1922: 922; Santschi, 1926b: 245; Shattuck, 1994: 162; Bolton, 1995b: 403.
Junior synonym of Technomyrmex ilgi: Bolton, 2007b: 23

Obsolete combinations

Engramma stygium

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2007b. Taxonomy of the dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 35(1):1-150. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Santschi, F. 1911c ("1910"). Nouvelle fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 79:351-369. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
Santschi, F. 1926b. Description de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens (IIIme partie). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 13:207-267. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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