Rhytidoponera nitens Donisthorpe, 1949 junior synonym of current valid taxon Rhytidoponera strigosa (Emery, 1887)
Rhytidoponera (Rhytidoponera) nitens Donisthorpe, 1949h: 403 (w.m.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.
Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Papua New Guinea: Finschhafen, 10.iv.1944 (E.S. Ross). Type-depository: CASC. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 7 paratype workers, 1 paratype male. Paratype-locality: paratype workers with same data as holotype, paratype male Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross). Paratype-depository: CASC. Type notes: Type-data follows Wilson, 1958g: 318. Donisthorpe originally gave Dutch New Guinea: Maffin Bay, 5.v.1944, ix.1944 (E.S. Ross) as type-data for all the material, which Wilson concluded was incorrect after examination of the whole series.
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