Leptomyrmex geniculatus

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Leptomyrmex geniculatus Emery, 1914 valid

Leptomyrmex pallens var. geniculata Emery, 1914f: 418 (w.) NEW CALEDONIA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Lucky & Ward, 2010: 37). Primary type locality: lectotype New Caledonia: Coula-Boréaré (F. Sarasin & J. Roux). Primary type depository: MSNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 3 paralectotype workers. Secondary type localities: 1 paralectotype worker with same data as holotype, 2 paralectotype workers New Caledonia: Tchalabel (F. Sarasin & J. Roux). Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MHNG, MSNG. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 74, cites 1 worker possible syntype (without locality data) in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 119, cites 4 worker syntypes in MHNG.

Lectotype designation: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 37.
Subspecies of Leptomyrmex pallens: Wheeler, 1915e: 278; Wheeler, 1934c: 109; Wheeler, 1935g: 34; Taylor, 1987a: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 119; Bolton, 1995b: 234.
Status as species: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 36 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Leptomyrmex pallens geniculatus

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. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. 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
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
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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