Technomyrmex primroseae

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

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Technomyrmex primroseae Donisthorpe, 1949 junior synonym of current valid taxon Technomyrmex pallipes (Smith, 1876)

Technomyrmex primroseae Donisthorpe, 1949f: 273 (w.) MAURITIUS. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Mauritius: Le Pouce Mt, 2.xi.1948, no. 126, in dead tree stump (R. Mamet). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0102318. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 15 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: BMNH, MCZC.

Status as species: Shattuck, 1994: 166; Bolton, 1995b: 403.
Junior synonym of Technomyrmex pallipes: Bolton, 2007b: 57

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2007b. Taxonomy of the dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 35(1):1-150. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1949f. A new Camponotus from Madagascar and a small collection of ants from Mauritius. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)2:271-275. 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

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