Amblyopone nana

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Amblyopone nana Emery, 1914 junior synonym of current valid taxon Amblyopone australis Erichson, 1842

Amblyopone nana Emery, 1914f: 394 (w.q.) NEW CALEDONIA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type localities: New Caledonia: Mt Panié, 500 m., forest (F. Sarasin & J. Roux), New Caledonia: Mt Canala, 700 m. (F. Sarasin & J. Roux). Primary type depositories: MSNG, NHMB. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 126, cites a worker “holotype” in NHMB.

Subspecies of Amblyopone australis: Wheeler, 1927c: 16
Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 9.
Junior synonym of Amblyopone australis: Wilson, 1958c: 142; Brown, 1958h: 13; Brown, 1960a: 167; Taylor, 1987a: 7; Bolton, 1995b: 62.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958h. A review of the ants of New Zealand. Acta Hymenopterologica 1:1-50. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230. PDF
Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1927c. Ants of the genus Amblyopone Erichson. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 62:1-29. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
Wilson, E. O. 1958c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:101-153. PDF

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