Dolichoderus bifurcatus

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

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Dolichoderus bifurcatus Karavaiev, 1926 junior synonym of current valid taxon Dolichoderus cuspidatus (Smith, 1857)

Dolichoderus (Diabolus) bifurcatus Karavaiev, 1926d: 425, fig. 3A (w.) WEST MALAYSIA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Malaysia: Selangor, Batu Caves (Malacca), 25.i.1913, no. 2964 (O. John). Primary type depository: SIZK. Type notes: 1) Radchenko et al., 2024: 282, cite 19 worker syntypes in SIZK. 2) Syntypes probably lost, not in SIZK (Dill, 2002: 35).

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 181 (error).
Junior synonym of Dolichoderus cuspidatus surbecki: Wheeler, 1935c: 68; Bolton, 1995b: 172.
Junior synonym of Dolichoderus cuspidatus: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 181; Shattuck, 1994: 47; Dill, 2002: 35.

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
Dill, M. 2002. Taxonomy of the migrating herdsmen species of the genus Dolichoderus Lund, 1831, with remarks on the systematics of other southeast-Asian Dolichoderus. Pp. 17-113 in: Dill, M.; Williams, D. J.; Maschwitz, U. 2002. Herdsmen ants and their mealybug partners. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 557:1-373. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1926d. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. Treubia 8:413-445. PDF
Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2024. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 2. Dolichoderinae. Zootaxa 5432 (2):279-288. 10.11646/zootaxa.5432.2.7 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Cambridge) 42:68-72. PDF

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