Tetraponera atra

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

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Tetraponera atra Donisthorpe, 1949 valid

Tetraponera atra Donisthorpe, 1949b: 493 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”): Maffin Bay, 12.vi.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: unknown (not in CASC). Type notes: Ward, 2001: 620, reports that the holotype is apparently lost.

Ward, 2001: 620 (w.)
Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 78; Bolton, 1995b: 417; Ward, 2001: 620 (redescription).

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. 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
Ward, P. S. 2001. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions. Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:589-665. PDF

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