Pristomyrmex laevigatus

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

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Pristomyrmex laevigatus (Weber, 1952) junior synonym of current valid taxon Pristomyrmex orbiceps (Santschi, 1914)

Hylidris laevigatus Weber, 1952a: 20, fig. 12 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): 13 mi. S of Asa, lat. 4°40’N, long. 25°40’E, 3.iii.1948, no. 2170.1 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: AMNH.

[Unresolved junior secondary homonym of Pristomyrmex levigatus Emery, 1897c.]
Combination in Pristomyrmex: Bolton, 1981b: 286.
Junior synonym of Pristomyrmex orbiceps: Bolton, 1981b: 286; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Wang, 2003a: 456.

Obsolete combinations

Hylidris laevigatus

Citations

Bolton, B. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 43:245-307. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Wang, M. 2003a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Pristomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 157:383-542. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1952a. Studies on African Myrmicinae, I (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1548:1-32. PDF

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