Leptomyrmex niger

Leptomyrmex niger Emery, 1900 valid

Leptomyrmex niger Emery, 1900b: 333, pl. 8, figs. 3, 4 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Lucky & Ward, 2010: 40). Primary type locality: lectotype Papua New Guinea (“New Guinea”): (no further data) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: MSNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MHNG, MSNG, USNM (probably also in HNHM). Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 119, cites 9 worker syntypes, none from MSNG.

Lectotype designation: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 40.
Karavaiev, 1926d: 430 (m.)
Status as species: Stitz, 1911a: 367; Emery, 1911g: 249; Emery, 1913a: 17; Viehmeyer, 1914c: 530; Wheeler, 1915e: 274 (redescription); Karavaiev, 1926d: 430; Santschi, 1932d: 16; Wheeler, 1934c: 109 (redescription); Donisthorpe, 1947c: 586; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 187; Shattuck, 1994: 119; Bolton, 1995b: 234; Lucky & Ward, 2010: 40 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Leptomyrmex lugubris: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 40

Junior synonyms

Leptomyrmex lugubris Wheeler, 1934

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. 1947c ("1946"). Ants from New Guinea, including new species and a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)13:577-595. PDF
Emery, C. 1900b. Formicidarum species novae vel minus cognitae in collectione Musaei Nationalis Hungarici quas in Nova-Guinea, colonia germanica, collegit L. Biró. Publicatio secunda. Természetrajzi Füzetek 23:310-338. PDF
Emery, C. 1911g. Formicidae. Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1907 et 1909 sous les auspices de Dr. H. A. Lorentz. Nova Guinea 9:249-259. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1926d. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. Treubia 8:413-445. PDF
Lucky, A.; Ward, P. S. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2688:1-67. PDF
Santschi, F. 1932d. Résultats scientifiques du voyage aux Indes orientales néerlandaises de LL. AA. RR. le Prince et la Princesse Léopold de Belgique. Hymenoptera. Formicidae. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique (2)4:11-29.
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
Stitz, H. 1911a. Australische Ameisen. (Neu-Guinea und Salomons-Inseln, Festland, Neu-Seeland). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1911:351-381. PDF
Viehmeyer, H. 1914c. Papuanische Ameisen. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1914:515-535. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1915e. The Australian honey-ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51:255-286. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1934c. A second revision of the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:69-118. PDF