Myopopone rossi

Myopopone rossi Donisthorpe, 1948 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myopopone castanea (Smith, 1860)

Myopopone rossi Donisthorpe, 1948b: 297 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Type-material: 24 syntype workers. Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Finschhafen, 20.iv.1944 (E.S. Ross). Type-depository: CASC.

Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1948g: 131; Donisthorpe, 1949h: 403; Donisthorpe, 1950a: 338; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 23.
Junior synonym of Myopopone castanea: Wilson, 1958c: 144; Brown, 1960a: 215; Bolton, 1995b: 270.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230.
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. 1948b ("1947"). A second instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:297-317. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1948g. A fourth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:131-143. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1949h. A seventh instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)2:401-422. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1950a. An eighth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)3:338-341. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1958c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:101-153. PDF