Myrmica aspersa

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

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Myrmica aspersa Smith, 1865 an obsolete combination of Tetramorium aspersum (Smith, 1865)

Myrmica aspersa Smith, 1865a: 72 (w.) INDONESIA (Morotai). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Morty I. (= Morotai I.), “M.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depositories: BMNH, OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901112. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 473, cites 1 worker in OXUM. 2) Bolton, 1977: 86, Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, cite 2 worker syntypes (BMNH, OXUM).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1977. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The genus Tetramorium Mayr in the Oriental and Indo-Australian regions, and in Australia. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 36:67-151. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Smith, F. 1865a. Descriptions of new species of hymenopterous insects from the islands of Sumatra, Sula, Gilolo, Salwatty, and New Guinea, collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 8:61-94. PDF

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