Iridomyrmex anceps watsonii

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Iridomyrmex anceps watsonii Forel, 1895 junior synonym of current valid taxon Iridomyrmex anceps (Roger, 1863)

Iridomyrmex anceps var. watsonii Forel, 1895f: 468 (diagnosis in key) (w.) MYANMAR. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Myanmar (“Upper Burma”): (no further data) (Watson). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 75, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 100, cites 7 worker syntypes (6 MHNG, 1 NHMB). 3) Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 42, also include 1 syntype queen, but this caste is not mentioned in the original description.

Subspecies of Iridomyrmex anceps: Forel, 1912e: 108; Emery, 1913a: 23; Wheeler, 1928c: 29; Wheeler, 1930k: 72; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 188; Shattuck, 1994: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 219.
Junior synonym of Iridomyrmex anceps: Heterick & Shattuck, 2011: 40

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. 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
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1895f. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part V. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 9:453-472. PDF
Forel, A. 1912e. Ameisen aus Java beobachtet und gesammelt von Edward Jacobson. III. Theil. Notes from the Leyden Museum 34:97-112. PDF
Heterick, B. E.; Shattuck, S. 2011. Revision of the ant genus Iridomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2845:1-174. 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. 1928c. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in China. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 22:3-38. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1930k. A list of the known Chinese ants. Peking Natural History Bulletin 5:53-81. PDF

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