Lioponera bicolor

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Lioponera bicolor Wheeler & Chapman, 1925 unresolved junior homonym, junior synonym of current valid taxon Lioponera longitarsus Mayr, 1879

Lioponera bicolor Wheeler & Chapman, 1925: 54, pl. 1, figs. 15, 16 (w.q.m.) PHILIPPINES (Luzon). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “several”). Primary type locality: Philippines: Luzon, Laguna Prov., Los Baños (F.X. Williams). Primary type depository: MCZC.

[Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Lioponera bicolor (Bolton, 1995b: 142).]
Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1939a: 255; Baltazar, 1966: 233.
Junior synonym of Lioponera longitarsus: Brown, 1975: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 142.

Citations

Baltazar, C. R. 1966. A catalogue of Philippine Hymenoptera (with a bibliography, 1758-1963). Pacific Insects Monograph 8:1-488. 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. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1939a. The genus Lioponera Mayr (Formicidae, Cerapachyinae), with descriptions of two new species and an ergatandromorph. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)3:252-257. PDF
Wheeler, W. M.; Chapman, J. W. 1925. The ants of the Philippine Islands. Part I, Dorylinae and Ponerinae. Philippine Journal of Science 28:47-73. PDF

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