Anonychomyrma minuta

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Anonychomyrma minuta (Donisthorpe, 1943) valid

Iridomyrmex minutus Donisthorpe, 1943a: 171 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 28 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Irian Jaya (“Dutch New Guinea”), Waigeu I., Camp Nok, 2500 ft, iii.1938, iv.1938, tube 22 (L.E. Cheesman). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 7, cites 28 worker syntypes (27 in BMNH, 1 in MCZC).

Combination in Anonychomyrma: Shattuck, 1992a: 14
Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1943e: 454; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 190; Shattuck, 1994: 7; Bolton, 1995b: 66.

Obsolete combinations

Iridomyrmex minutus

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
Donisthorpe, H. 1943a. Descriptions of new ants, chiefly from Waigeu Island, N. Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:167-176. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1943e. The ants (Hym., Formicidae) of Waigeu Island, North Dutch New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:433-475. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1992a. Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:13-18. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF

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