Tetraponera maffini

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

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Tetraponera maffini Donisthorpe, 1948 junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera nitida (Smith, 1860)

Tetraponera (Tetraponera) maffini Donisthorpe, 1948d: 591 (q.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, viii.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 80; Bolton, 1995b: 418.
Junior synonym of Tetraponera nitida: Ward, 2001: 636

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. 1948d. A third instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:589-604. 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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