Pristomyrmex castaneicolor

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

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Pristomyrmex castaneicolor Donisthorpe, 1949 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pristomyrmex umbripennis (Smith, 1863)

Pristomyrmex castaneicolor Donisthorpe, 1949h: 412 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 14 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depositories: BMNH, CASC, LACM, MCZC, USNM. Primary type specimens: CASENT0010664, CASENT0901713.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 365.
Junior synonym of Pristomyrmex umbripennis: Wang, 2003a: 525

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. 1949h. A seventh instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)2:401-422. PDF
Wang, M. 2003a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Pristomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157:383-542. PDF

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