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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Myrmicinae
›
Crematogastrini
›
Lophomyrmex
›
Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus
Lophomyrmex
quadrispinosus
(Jerdon, 1851)
valid
Oecodoma quadrispinosa
Jerdon, 1851
: 111 (w.) INDIA (Karnataka/Kerala; “Malabar”). Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Type-material: syntype workers. Type-locality: India: “abundant in Malabar”. Type-depository: no material known to exist.
[Duplicated in
Jerdon, 1854a
: 52. Genus misspelled as
Ocodoma
in both publications.]
[Misspelled as
4spinosus
by
Rothney, 1903
: 98;
Forel, 1911c
: 223;
Forel, 1912a
: 55, and others.]
[Note:
Wheeler, 1929h
: 61, ascribes
Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus
to
Leptomyrmex
(error).]
Rigato, 1994b
: 59 (q.m.);
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1954a
: 131 (l.)
Combination in
Pheidole
:
Smith, 1858a
: 174.
Combination in
Lophomyrmex
:
Emery, 1892
: 114.
Status as species:
Smith, 1858a
: 174;
Roger, 1863b
: 31;
Mayr, 1863a
: 441;
Smith, 1871a
: 331;
Mayr, 1879
: 677 (redescription);
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 74;
Emery, 1893g
: 192 (in key);
Emery, 1893h
: 243;
Forel, 1903a
: 695;
Rothney, 1903
: 98;
Bingham, 1903
: 195;
Forel, 1906b
: 88;
Forel, 1913g
: 191;
Emery, 1924f
: 209;
Karavaiev, 1933c
: 270;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 155;
Ettershank, 1966
: 134;
Kugler, 1988
: 258;
Wang, 1993b
: 435;
Rigato, 1994b
: 59 (redescription);
Bolton, 1995b
: 248;
Tang
et al.
, 1995
: 73;
Tiwari, 1999
: 59;
Mathew & Tiwari, 2000
: 330;
Sheela & Ghosh, 2008
: 17 (in key);
Guénard & Dunn, 2012
: 44;
Borowiec, 2014
: 100;
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 38;
Dias
et al.
, 2020
: 75.
Senior synonym of
Lophomyrmex taprobanae
:
Rigato, 1994b
: 59;
Bolton, 1995b
: 248.
Junior synonyms
Lophomyrmex taprobanae
Forel, 1911
Obsolete combination(s):
Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus taprobanae
Obsolete combinations
Oecodoma quadrispinosa
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