Arnoldius pusillus
(Mayr, 1876)
valid
Tapinoma pusillum
Mayr, 1876:
83 (w.q.m.)
AUSTRALIA (New South Wales).
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Australia: Queensland, Rockhampton (no collector’s name), New South Wales, Sydney (no collector’s name). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMW.
Type notes:
Shattuck, 1994: 36, cites 2 worker, 4 queen syntypes in MHNG.
- Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 189 (l.); Imai et al., 1977: 345 (k.)
- Combination in Bothriomyrmex: Forel, 1879a: 127.
- Combination in Arnoldius: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 166.
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 170; Forel, 1902j: 476; Emery, 1913a: 28; Clark, 1938: 374; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 92; Taylor, 1987a: 9; Shattuck, 1994: 35; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Sarnat et al., 2013: 69.
Obsolete combinations
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
- A. p. aequalis (Forel, 1902)
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
- Forel, A. 1879a. Études myrmécologiques en 1879 (deuxième partie [1re partie en 1878]). Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 16:53-128. PDF
- Forel, A. 1902j. Fourmis nouvelles d'Australie. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 10:405-548. PDF
- Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. PDF
- Imai, H. T.; Crozier, R. H.; Taylor, R. W. 1977. Karyotype evolution in Australian ants. Chromosoma (Berlin) 59:341-393. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. PDF
- Sarnat, E. M.; Blanchard, B.; Guénard, B.; Fasi, J.; Economo, E. P. 2013. Checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Solomon Islands and a new survey of Makira Island. ZooKeys 257:47-88. 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
- 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
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1951. The ant larvae of the subfamily Dolichoderinae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 53:169-210. PDF
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae