Leptomyrmex froggatti

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Leptomyrmex froggatti Forel, 1910 junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus (Fabricius, 1775)

Leptomyrmex froggatti Forel, 1910b: 57 (w.m.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, Walcha (as “Walcher”) (W.W. Froggatt). Primary type depositories: ANIC, BMNH, MHNG, MNHN, NHMB, OXUM. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 74, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 118, cites 34 worker, 3 male syntypes (3w ANIC, 1w BMNH, 29w, 3m MHNG, 1w NHMB, 1w OXUM).

Status as species: Emery, 1913a: 17; Wheeler, 1915e: 269; Wheeler, 1934c: 101; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 104; Taylor, 1987a: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 118; Bolton, 1995b: 234.
Junior synonym of Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 30

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.
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1910b. Formicides australiens reçus de MM. Froggatt et Rowland Turner. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 18:1-94. 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
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1915e. The Australian honey-ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51:255-286. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1934c. A second revision of the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:69-118. PDF

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