Leptomyrmex wheeleri

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Leptomyrmex wheeleri Donisthorpe, 1948 junior synonym of current valid taxon Leptomyrmex fragilis (Smith, 1859)

Leptomyrmex wheeleri Donisthorpe, 1948d: 600 (w.m.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers, 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: workers Indonesia: Irian Jaya “Dutch New Guinea”), Maffin Bay, vii.1944, viii.1944 (E.S. Ross), male Maffin Bay, 20.vi.1944 (E.S. Ross). Primary type depositories: BMNH, CASC. Type notes: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 34, cite 5 worker syntypes, but original description says only 3 workers were represented.

Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1948g: 138; Shattuck, 1994: 121; Bolton, 1995b: 235.
Junior synonym of Leptomyrmex fragilis: Lucky & Ward, 2010: 34

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Donisthorpe, H. 1948d. A third instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)14:589-604. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1948g. A fourth instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)1:131-143. 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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