Acropyga robae

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

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Acropyga robae Donisthorpe, 1936 junior synonym of current valid taxon Acropyga exsanguis (Wheeler, 1909)

Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) robae Donisthorpe, 1936b: 108, figs. 1-3 (w.q.m.) COLOMBIA (Norte de Satander). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: La Esperanza, iv.1935 (R.P. Robá). Primary type depository: BMNH. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated, “a number”), 8 paratype queens, 2 paratype males. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.

Status as species: Weber, 1944b: 110 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 58.
Junior synonym of Acropyga exsanguis: LaPolla, 2004a: 47

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Donisthorpe, H. 1936b. Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) robae sp. nov. (Hym. Formicidae), a new S. American ant, with remarks on the genus, etc. Entomologist 69:108-111. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1944b. The neotropical coccid-tending ants of the genus Acropyga Roger. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 37:89-122. PDF

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