Myrmicaria arachnoides
(Smith, 1857)
valid
Heptacondylus arachnoides
Smith, 1857a:
72 (w.q.)
BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak).
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Type-material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Type-locality: Malaysia (“Borneo”): Sarawak, “SAR.11” (A.R. Wallace). Type-depository: OXUM.
- [Misspelled as arachnoidea by Santschi, 1928h: 130; Stitz, 1938: 101, and others.]
- Mayr, 1867a: 114 (m.)
- Combination in Myrmicaria: Mayr, 1867a: 113.
- Combination in Myrmicaria (Heptacondylus): Santschi, 1928h: 130.
- Status as species: Roger, 1863b: 28; Mayr, 1863a: 423; Smith, 1871a: 330; Emery, 1893m: 155; Emery, 1900: 692; Forel, 1901m: 62; Forel, 1909i: 226; Forel, 1912e: 105; Forel, 1912o: 57; Forel, 1913l: 73; Viehmeyer, 1916a: 122; Wheeler, 1919f: 70; Emery, 1922c: 122; Santschi, 1925c: 175 (in key); Santschi, 1928h: 130; Karavaiev, 1935a: 77 (redescription); Donisthorpe, 1932c: 449; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 285; Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 47; Wang et al., 2022: 88.
- Senior synonym of Myrmicaria longipes: Mayr, 1863a: 423; Mayr, 1867a: 113; Mayr, 1872: 155; Dalla Torre, 1893: 155; Emery, 1900: 692; Wheeler, 1919f: 70; Emery, 1922c: 122; Bolton, 1995b: 285.
- [Note: Mayr gives Myrmicaria longipes as senior synonym, but Myrmicaria arachnoides has priority (Dalla Torre, 1893: 155).]
Junior synonyms
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Myrmicaria longipes
(Smith, 1858)
Obsolete combination(s): Heptacondylus longipes
Obsolete combinations
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
- M. a. latinoda Stitz, 1938
- M. a. lutea Emery, 1900
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
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
- Emery, C. 1893m. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in various genera attributed to Emery.]. Pp. 4-266 in: Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1900. Formiche raccolte da Elio Modigliani in Sumatra, Engano e Mentawei. Dummy reference. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 40[=(2)20]:661-722.
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
- Forel, A. 1901m. Formiciden des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Hamburg. Neue Calyptomyrmex-, Dacryon-, Podomyrma- und Echinopla-Arten. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 18:43-82. PDF
- Forel, A. 1909i. Ameisen aus Java und Krakatau beobachtet und gesammelt von Herrn Edward Jacobson. Notes from the Leyden Museum 31:221-232. PDF
- Forel, A. 1912e. Ameisen aus Java beobachtet und gesammelt von Edward Jacobson. III. Theil. Notes from the Leyden Museum 34:97-112. PDF
- Forel, A. 1912o. Einige neue und interessante Ameisenformen aus Sumatra etc. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Supplement 15("Erster Band"):51-78. PDF
- Forel, A. 1913l. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. v. Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911-1912. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 36:1-148. PDF
- Karavaiev, V. 1935a. Neue Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet, nebst Revision einiger Formen. Treubia 15:57-118. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
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- Mayr, G. 1872. Formicidae Borneenses collectae a J. Doria et O. Beccari in territorio Sarawak annis 1865-1867. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 2:133-155. PDF
- Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
- Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1925c ("1924"). Révision des Myrmicaria d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 64:133-176. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1928h. Fourmis de Sumatra, récoltées par Mr. J. B. Corporaal. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 71:119-140. PDF
- Smith, F. 1857a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2:42-88. PDF
- Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF
- Stitz, H. 1938. Neue Ameisen aus dem indo-malayischen Gebiet. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1938:99-122. PDF
- Viehmeyer, H. 1916a ("1915"). Ameisen von Singapore. Beobachtet und gesammelt von H. Overbeck. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (A)81(8):108-168. PDF
- Wang, W. Y.; Soh, E. J. Y.; Yong, G. W. J.; Wong, M. K. L.; Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P.; Yamane, S. 2022. Remarkable diversity in a little red dot: a comprehensive checklist of known ant species in Singapore (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with notes on ecology and taxonomy. Asian Myrmecology 15: e015006:1-152. [online early] 10.20362/am.015006 PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1919f. The ants of Borneo. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63:43-147. PDF
Extant: 2 valid subspecies
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