Eurhopalothrix punctata

Eurhopalothrix punctata (Szabó, 1910) valid

Rhopalothrix punctata Szabó, 1910a: 366, fig. 3 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Papua New Guinea (“New Guinea”): Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang), 1900 (L. Biró) (invalid restriction of type locality by Brown & Kempf, 1960: 221; no lectotype designated), Papua New Guinea: Stephansort (= Bogadjim), 1900 (L. Biró), Papua New Guinea: Hansemann Mts, 1900 (L. Biró). Primary type depository: HNHM.

Combination in Eurhopalothrix: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 221
Status as species: Mann, 1919: 360 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 329; Brown, 1949h: 93; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 106; Brown & Kempf, 1960: 221 (redescription); Taylor, 1968c: 335 (in key); Taylor, 1980b: 230; Taylor, 1990c: 403 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 189.

Obsolete combinations

Rhopalothrix punctata

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. 1949h. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini: IV. Some genera properly excluded from the Dacetini, with the establishment of the Basicerotini new tribe. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 75:83-96. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
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
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:273-391. PDF
Szabó, J. 1910a. Formicides nouveaux ou peu connus des collections du Musée National Hongrois [complete]. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 8:364-369.
Taylor, R. W. 1968c. Notes on the Indo-Australian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 16:333-348. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1980b. Australian and Melanesian ants of the genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf - notes and new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 19:229-239. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1990c. New Asian ants of the tribe Basicerotini, with an on-line computer interactive key to the twenty-six known Indo-Australian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4:397-425. PDF

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