Myopopone picea

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Myopopone picea Donisthorpe, 1938 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myopopone castanea (Smith, 1860)

Myopopone picea Donisthorpe, 1938h: 498 (w.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Malaysia: Borneo, Sarawak, Mt Dulit, junction of Rivers Tinjar and Lejok, 9.viii.1932 (Oxford University Expd.) (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0102181.

Status as species: Donisthorpe, 1942c: 31; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 23.
Junior synonym of Myopopone castanea: Wilson, 1958c: 144; Brown, 1960a: 215; Bolton, 1995b: 270.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230. PDF
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. 1938h. New species of ants and a new subgenus of Dolichoderus from various localities. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)2:498-504. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1942c. Myopopone wollastoni sp. n., with notes on other forms in the genus and descriptions of the males of two species (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 78:29-31. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1958c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:101-153. PDF

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