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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Myrmicinae
›
Crematogastrini
›
Lophomyrmex
›
Lophomyrmex taivanae
Lophomyrmex
taivanae
Forel, 1912
valid
Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus r. taivanae
Forel, 1912a
: 55 (w.)
Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus
is here misspelled as
4-spinosus
. TAIWAN. Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Taiwan (“Formosa”): Kosempo (
H. Sauter
). Primary type depositories:
BMNH
,
MHNG
(possibly also
DEIB
).
[Note:
Wheeler, 1929h
: 61, ascribes
Lophomyrmex taivanae
to
Leptomyrmex
(error).]
Subspecies of
Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus
:
Emery, 1924f
: 209;
Wheeler, 1929h
: 61;
Wheeler, 1930b
: 100;
Teranishi, 1940
: 57;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 156.
Status as species:
Ettershank, 1966
: 134;
Rigato, 1994b
: 60 (redescription);
Bolton, 1995b
: 248;
Lin & Wu, 2003
: 65;
Terayama, 2009
: 169;
Vonshak & Ionescu-Hirsch, 2010
: 42;
Yamane & Hosoishi, 2015
: 67 (in key).
Obsolete combinations
Lophomyrmex quadrispinosus taivanae
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
Emery, C.
1924f ("1922").
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.].
Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397.
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
Forel, A.
1912a.
H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute. Formicidae (Hym.) [Combined reference].
Entomologische Mitteilungen. Berlin-Dahlem 1:45-81.
PDF
Lin, C.-C.
;
Wu, W.-J.
2003.
The ant fauna of Taiwan (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with keys to subfamilies and genera. [In Chinese.].
Guoli Taiwan Bowuguan Niankan 46:5-69.
Rigato, F.
1994b.
Revision of the myrmicine ant genus
Lophomyrmex,
with a review of its taxonomic position (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Systematic Entomology 19:47-60.
PDF
Teranishi, C.
1940.
Works of Cho Teranishi. Memorial Volume. [In Japanese, English and German, in part.].
Osaka: Kansai Entomological Society, 312 + (posthumous section) 95 pp.
Terayama, M.
2009.
A synopsis of the family Formicidae of Taiwan (Insecta: Hymenoptera).
Research Bulletin of Kanto Gakuen University. Liberal Arts 17:81-266.
PDF
Vonshak, M.
;
Ionescu-Hirsch, A.
2010 ("2009").
A checklist of the ants of Israel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Israel Journal of Entomology 39:33-55.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1929h.
Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines.
Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24:27-64.
PDF
Wheeler, W. M.
1930b.
Formosan ants collected by Dr. R. Takahashi.
Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club 11:93-106.
PDF
Yamane, S.
;
Hosoishi, S.
2015.
Second Vietnamese species of the myrmicine genus
Lophomyrmex
(Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
Halteres 5:64-68.
PDF
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Vitsika
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Vombisidris
Xenomyrmex
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ambiguus
bedoti
birmanus
changlangensis
indosinensis
kali
longicornis
lucidus
opaciceps
quadrispinosus
striatulus
taivanae
terraceensis