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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Myrmicinae
›
Solenopsidini
›
Myrmicaria
›
Myrmicaria arachnoides
Myrmicaria
arachnoides
(Smith, 1857)
valid
Heptacondylus arachnoides
Smith, 1857a
: 72 (w.q.) BORNEO (East Malaysia: Sarawak). Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: 1 syntype worker, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Malaysia (“Borneo”): Sarawak, “SAR.11” (
A.R. Wallace
). Primary type depository:
OXUM
.
Type notes:
Donisthorpe, 1932c
: 449, cites 1 worker, 1 queen syntypes in
OXUM
(confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).
[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
Myrmicaria longipes
(Smith, 1858)
Obsolete combination(s):
Heptacondylus longipes
Obsolete combinations
Heptacondylus arachnoides
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
Mayr, G.
1867a.
Adnotationes in monographiam formicidarum Indo-Neerlandicarum.
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 10:33-117.
PDF
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
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