Gesomyrmex spatulatus

Gesomyrmex spatulatus Cole, 1949 valid

Gesomyrmex spatulatus Cole, 1949a: 72, fig. 1 (s.w.) INDIA (Assam). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype major worker. Primary type locality: India: Upper Assam, Jorhat, 22.ii.1944, no. A-136 (A.C. Cole). Primary type depository: LACM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paratype major workers, 15 paratype media workers, 7 paratype minor workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: LACM, MCZC, USNM.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 208; Bolton, 1995b: 207; Bharti et al., 2016: 27; Wang et al., 2022: 48.

Citations

Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
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
Cole, A. C., Jr. 1949a. A study of the genus Gesomyrmex Mayr, and a description of a species new to the genus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 42:71-76. PDF
Wang, W. Y.; Soh, E. J. Y.; Yong, G. W. J.; Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P.; Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006:1-152. [online early] 10.20362/am.015006 PDF