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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
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›
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Nylanderia assimilis
Nylanderia
assimilis
(Jerdon, 1851)
valid
Formica assimilis
Jerdon, 1851
: 125 (w.) INDIA (Karnataka/Kerala). Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: India: Malabar (no further data), “not abundant” (
T.C. Jerdon
). Primary type depository: unknown (no material known to exist).
[Duplicated in
Jerdon, 1854b
: 107.]
Combination in
Prenolepis
:
Emery, 1893m
: 177.
Combination in
Paratrechina (Nylanderia)
:
Emery, 1925d
: 219.
Combination in
Nylanderia
:
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 214;
LaPolla
et al.
, 2010a
: 127.
Status as species:
Smith, 1858a
: 15;
Mayr, 1863a
: 411;
Smith, 1871a
: 303;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 177;
Emery, 1925d
: 219;
Chapman & Capco, 1951
: 214;
Bolton, 1995b
: 312;
Tiwari, 1999
: 81;
Bharti
et al.
, 2016
: 29.
Obsolete combinations
Formica assimilis
Citations
Bharti, H.
;
Guénard, B.
;
Bharti, M.
;
Economo, E. P.
2016.
An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
ZooKeys 551:1-83.
PDF
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
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.
1925d.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae.
Genera Insectorum 183:1-302.
PDF
Jerdon, T. C.
1851.
A catalogue of the species of ants found in Southern India.
Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17:103-127.
PDF
Jerdon, T. C.
1854b.
A catalogue of the species of ants found in Southern India. [concl.].
Annals and Magazine of Natural History (2)13:100-110.
PDF
LaPolla, J. S.
;
Brady, S. G.
;
Shattuck, S. O.
2010a.
Phylogeny and taxonomy of the
Prenolepis
genus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Systematic Entomology 35:118-131.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Smith, F.
1858a.
Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae.
London: British Museum, 216 pp.
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
Tiwari, R. N.
1999.
Taxonomic studies on ants of southern India (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Memoirs of the Zoological Survey of India 18(4):1-96.
PDF
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