Acropyga ambigua

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Acropyga ambigua Emery, 1922 valid

Acropyga (Atopodon) ambigua Emery, 1922e: 107, fig. 1a-b (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea (“NE New Guinea”): Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen (= Madang) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: HNHM.

Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 30; Stärcke, 1930: 376 (in key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 211; Bolton, 1995b: 57; LaPolla, 2004a: 60 (redescription); Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 36.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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. 1922e. Quelques fourmis nouvelles minuscules. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 19:107-112. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
Stärcke, A. 1930. Verzeichnis der bis jetzt von der Insel Pulau Berhala bekannt gewordenen Ameisen. Treubia 12:371-381. PDF

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