Lasius hingstoni

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

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Lasius hingstoni (Donisthorpe, 1929) junior synonym of current valid taxon Lasius crinitus (Smith, 1858)

Acanthomyops (Chthonolasius) hingstoni Donisthorpe, 1929a: 448 (w.) INDIA (West Bengal). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: India: Darjeeling, 5000 ft, 14.iii.1924, Everest Expd. (R.W.G. Hingston). Primary type depository: BMNH. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 15 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: BMNH.

[Misspelled as hyngstoni by Menozzi, 1939a: 343.]
Status as species: Menozzi, 1939a: 314 (in key).
Junior synonym of Lasius crinitus: Wilson, 1955a: 187; Bolton, 1995b: 223.

Obsolete combinations

Acanthomyops hingstoni

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Donisthorpe, H. 1929a. The Formicidae (Hymenoptera) taken by Major R. W. G. Hingston, M.C., I.M.S. (ret.), on the Mount Everest Expedition, 1924. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)4:444-449.
Menozzi, C. 1939a. Formiche dell'Himalaya e del Karakorum raccolte dalla Spedizione italiana comandata da S. A. R. il Duca di Spoleto (1929). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 78:285-345. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1955a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Lasius. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113:1-201. PDF

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