Leptomyrmex contractus

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

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Leptomyrmex contractus Donisthorpe, 1947 junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptomyrmex melanoticus Wheeler, 1934

Leptomyrmex contractus Donisthorpe, 1947c: 586 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: K.B. Mission, Milne Bay, 5.iii.1944 (K.V. Krombein). Primary type depositories: BMNH, USNM.

Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 186; Shattuck, 1994: 115; Bolton, 1995b: 234.
Junior synonym of Leptomyrmex melanoticus: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 38

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
Donisthorpe, H. 1947c ("1946"). Ants from New Guinea, including new species and a new genus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)13:577-595. PDF
Lucky, A.; Ward, P. S. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2688:1-67. 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

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