Liomyrmex caeca

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Liomyrmex caeca (Smith, 1860) homonym replaced by Liomyrmex gestroi (Emery, 1887)

Myrmica caeca Smith, 1860b: 108 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Indonesia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia (“New Guinea): Irian Jaya, Dory, “59.58” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: BMNH(ENT) 1014937. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 463, incorrectly states that this “insect is not in the Oxford Collection nor at the B.M.”. 2) In fact two worker syntypes are present in BMNH, labelled “59.58 Dory, New Guinea.” (Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978, Rigato & Bolton, 2001: 254).

[Misspelled as coecus by Emery, 1922c: 191.]
[Junior primary homonym of Myrmica caeca Jerdon, 1851.]
Combination in Liomyrmex: Mayr, 1865: 23 (footnote)
Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 431; Smith, 1871a: 325; Dalla Torre, 1893: 63; Emery, 1922c: 191; Donisthorpe, 1940a: 44; Donisthorpe, 1949h: 411; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 162; Ettershank, 1966: 154.
Replacement name: Liomyrmex gestroi Emery, 1887g
[Note: Liomyrmex gestroi Emery, 1887g oldest junior synonym of Liomyrmex caeca Smith, 1860b (synonymy by Bolton, 1995b: 248); hence Liomyrmex gestroi Emery, 1887g first available replacement name.]

Obsolete combinations

Myrmica caeca

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
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1940a. Descriptions of new species of ants (Hym., Formicidae) from various localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)5:39-48. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1949h. A seventh instalment of the Ross Collection of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12)2:401-422. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. PDF
Rigato, F.; Bolton, B. 2001. The ant genus Liomyrmex: a review (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 133:247-256. PDF
Smith, F. 1860b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Bachian, Kaisaa, Amboyna, Gilolo, and at Dory in New Guinea. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 5(17b)(suppl. to vol. 4):93-143. PDF
Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF

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