Gauromyrmex donisthorpei

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

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Gauromyrmex donisthorpei (Smith, 1949) junior synonym of current valid taxon Gauromyrmex acanthinus (Karavaiev, 1935)

Acalama donisthorpei Smith, 1949a: 207, figs. 1, 2 (w.) INDIA (Sikkim). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: India: Prov. Assam, Sikkim (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 21 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: USNM. Type notes: Specimens intercepted on orchid in plant quarantine, Hawaii: Honolulu, 14.iv.1947 (T.F. Chong).

Junior synonym of Gauromyrmex acanthinus: Brown, 1953c: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 422; Chen & Chen, 2022: 6.

Obsolete combinations

Acalama donisthorpei

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953c. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part I. Breviora 11:1-13. PDF
Chen, D.; Chen, Z. 2022. Ants of the genus Gauromyrmex Menozzi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with description of a new species from China. Asian Myrmecology 15, e015007:1-10. 10.20362/am.015007 PDF
Smith, M. R. 1949a ("1948"). A new genus and species of ant from India (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 56:205-208. PDF

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