Metapone nicobarensis
Tiwari & Jonathan, 1986
junior synonym of current valid taxon Metapone jacobsoni Crawley, 1924
Metapone nicobarensis
Tiwari & Jonathan, 1986b:
150, fig. 1 (w.q.)
INDIA (Nicobar Is).
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: India: Nicobar Is, Rajendra Nagar, 30.xii.1975 (P.K. Maity and party). Type-depository: NZSI.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 2 paratype queens. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Paratype-depository: NZSI.
Type notes:
Taylor & Alpert, 2016: 518, say that the type-material could not be found in NZSI.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 258; Mohanraj et al., 2010: 6; Bharti et al., 2016: 39.
- Junior synonym of Metapone jacobsoni: Taylor & Alpert, 2016: 518
Citations
- Bharti, H.; Guénard, B.; Bharti, M.; Economo, E. P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551:1-83. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Mohanraj, P.; Ali, M.; Veerakumari, K. 2010. Formicidae of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Indian Ocean: Bay of Bengal). Journal of Insect Science 10 (Article 172):1-11. PDF
- Taylor, R. W.; Alpert, G. D. 2016. The myrmicine ant genus Metapone Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a global taxonomic review with descriptions of twelve new species. Zootaxa 4105 (6):501-545. 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.6.1 PDF
- Tiwari, R. N.; Jonathan, J. K. 1986b. A new species of Metapone Forel from Nicobar Islands (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 83:149-153. PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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