Myopias castaneicola
(Donisthorpe, 1938)
valid
Trapeziopelta castaneicola
Donisthorpe, 1938d:
596 (w.)
NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
Australasia.
Primary type information:
Type-material: 2 syntype workers. Type-locality: Papua New Guinea (“Papua”): Kokoda, 1200 ft, x.1933 (L.E. Cheesman). Type-depository: BMNH.
- Combination in Myopias: Bolton, 1995b: 269
- Status as species: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 75; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Probst et al., 2015: 204 (in key).
Obsolete combinations
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
- Donisthorpe, H. 1938d. New species and varieties of ants from New Guinea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)1:593-599. PDF
- Probst, R. S.; Guénard, B.; Boudinot, B. E. 2015. Toward understanding the predatory ant genus Myopias (Formicidae: Ponerinae), including a key to global species, male-based generic diagnosis, and new species description. Sociobiology 62:192-212. 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i2.192-212 PDF