Anonychomyrma dimorpha
(Viehmeyer, 1912)
valid
Iridomyrmex dimorphus
Viehmeyer, 1912b:
7, fig. 7 (w.)
NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “in numbers”). Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“German New Guinea”): Torricelli Mts (640 m.), 17-18.ix.1909 (O. Schlaginhaufen). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MNHU, NHMB, SIZK, SMTD.
Type notes:
1) Kostyuk, 1976: 99, and Radchenko et al., 2024: 283, cite 3 worker syntypes in SIZK. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 75, cites 2 worker syntypes in NHMB. 3) Shattuck, 1994: 4, cites 3 worker syntypes in MHNG.
- Donisthorpe, 1941h: 60 (m.)
- Combination in Anonychomyrma: Shattuck, 1992a: 13
- Status as species: Mann, 1919: 363 (redescription); Wheeler, 1935g: 35; Donisthorpe, 1941h: 59; Donisthorpe, 1949b: 500; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 189; Shattuck, 1994: 4; Bolton, 1995b: 66; Sarnat et al., 2013: 69.
Obsolete combinations
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
- A. d. contenta (Viehmeyer, 1913)
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102.
- 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. 1941h. The ants of Japen Island, Dutch New Guinea (Hym., Formicidae). Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 91:51-64. 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
- Kostyuk, Yu. A. 1976. Katalog typov murav’ev kollektsii V.A. Karavaeva khranyashiesya v Institute Zoologii Akademii Nauk Ukrainskoi SSR (chast’ 1). Sbornik Trudov Zoologicheskogo Muzeya (Kiev) 36:91-106.
- Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391. PDF
- Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2024. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 2. Dolichoderinae. Zootaxa 5432 (2):279-288. 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.2.7 PDF
- Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1992a. Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:13-18. 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
- Viehmeyer, H. 1912b. Ameisen aus Deutsch Neuguinea gesammelt von Dr. O. Schlaginhaufen. Nebst einem Verzeichnisse der papuanischen Arten. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 14:1-26. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae