Acropyga paramaribensis

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

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Acropyga paramaribensis Borgmeier, 1933 junior synonym of current valid taxon Acropyga exsanguis (Wheeler, 1909)

Acropyga paramaribensis Borgmeier, 1933c: 263 (w.q.) SURINAME. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “several”). Primary type locality: Suriname (“Dutch Guyana”): Paramaribo (G.H. Bünzli). Primary type depository: MZSP. Primary type specimen: MZSP0083507. Type notes: Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S1, cite 6 syntype workers in MZSP.

Borgmeier, 1934: 111 (m.); Bünzli, 1935: 519 (l.)
Combination in Acropyga (Rhizomyrma): Borgmeier, 1934: 109; Kempf, 1972b: 17.
Status as species: Borgmeier, 1934: 109 (redescription); Bünzli, 1935: 459 (redescription); Wheeler, 1935f: 327; Donisthorpe, 1936b: 110 (in list); Weber, 1944b: 103 (redescription); Kempf, 1961b: 521; Kempf, 1972b: 17; Bolton, 1995b: 58.
Junior synonym of Acropyga exsanguis: LaPolla, 2004a: 47.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1933c. Nota prévia sobre Acropyga paramaribensis n. sp. (Hym. Formicidae). Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 3:263. PDF
Borgmeier, T. 1934. Contribuição para o conhecimento da fauna mirmecológica dos cafezais de Paramaribo, Guiana Holandesa (Hym. Formicidae). Archivos do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal (Rio de Janeiro) 1:93-111. PDF
Bünzli, G. H. 1935. Untersuchungen über coccidophile Ameisen aus den Kaffeefeldern von Surinam. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 16:453-593. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1936b. Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) robae sp. nov. (Hym. Formicidae), a new S. American ant, with remarks on the genus, etc. Entomologist 69:108-111. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1961b. A survey of the ants of the soil fauna in Surinam (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:481-524. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Ulysséa, M. A.; Santos, S.; Moleiro, H. P.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Camacho, G. P. 2025. The MZSP Ant Type Collection: a complete catalogue and digital resource for global access. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3):blaf034, 17 pp. [online early] 10.1093/biolinnean/blaf034 PDF
Weber, N. A. 1944b. The neotropical coccid-tending ants of the genus Acropyga Roger. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 37:89-122. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935f. Ants of the genus Acropyga Roger, with description of a new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 43:321-329. PDF

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