Aphaenogaster (Nystalomyrma) gigantea
Collingwood, 1962c:
225, fig. 7 (w.q.)
MYANMAR.
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Myanmar (“Burma”): Kambaiti Mts, 2000 m., 24.vi.1934 (R. Malaise). Primary type depository: NHRS.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: NHRS.
Type notes:
Collingwood gives the collection date as 24.vi.1934, but Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 143, point out that the date on both the holotype and paratype labels is 15.iv.1934.
- Combination in Myrmica: Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 13
- Junior synonym of Myrmica ritae: Collingwood, 1970b: 374.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 70; Radchenko & Elmes, 1998: 13; Radchenko & Elmes, 2010: 143.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Collingwood, C. A. 1962c. Some ants (Hym. Formicidae) from north-east Asia. Entomologisk Tidskrift 83:215-230. PDF
- Collingwood, C. A. 1970b. Formicidae (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) from Nepal. Khumbu Himal. Ergebnisse des Forschungsunternehmens Nepal Himalaya 3:371-387.
- Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 1998. Taxonomic revision of the ritae species-group of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Vestnik Zoologii 32(4):3-27. PDF
- Radchenko, A. G.; Elmes, G. W. 2010. Myrmica ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Old World. Fauna Mundi 3. Warsaw: Natura Optima Dux Foundation, 790 pp. PDF