Nylanderia madagascarensis ellisii

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Nylanderia madagascarensis ellisii (Forel, 1891) valid

Prenolepis ellisii Forel, 1891c: 87, pl. 2, fig. 10 (w.q.m.) MADAGASCAR. Malagasy.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Madagascar: Imerina (Antananarivo, Analamainty forest) (P. Camboué) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 1038; no lectotype designated), Madagascar: Tamatave (W.H. O’Swald), Madagascar: Fianarantsoa (L. Besson), Madagascar: Imerina (J.M. Hildebrandt). Primary type depositories: MHNG, SIZK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0101416, CASENT0917871. Type notes: Radchenko et al., 2025: 492, cite 2 syntype workers in SIZK.

Combination in Prenolepis (Nylanderia): Emery, 1914f: 422.
Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 219.
Combination in Nylanderia: LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
Status as species: Forel, 1892l: 516; Dalla Torre, 1893: 178; Forel, 1907i: 88; Emery, 1925d: 219.
Subspecies of Nylanderia madagascarensis: Wheeler, 1922: 1038; Bolton, 1995b: 313.

Obsolete combinations

Prenolepis ellisii

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1891c. Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier, A. 1891. Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar. Volume XX. Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères. Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Paris: Hachette et Cie, v + 237 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1892l. Nouvelles espèces de Formicides de Madagascar (récoltées par M. Sikora). Première série. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 36:516-535. PDF
Forel, A. 1907i. Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse. Reise in Ostafrika 2:75-92. 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
Radchenko, A. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Esteves, F. A.; Martynova, E. V.; Bazhenova, T. N.; Lasarenko, S. N. 2025. Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 3. Formicinae. Zootaxa 5613 (3):469-499. 10.11646/zootaxa.5613.3.3 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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