Nylanderia obscura papuana

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

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Nylanderia obscura papuana (Forel, 1901) valid

Prenolepis obscura var. papuana Forel, 1901c: 26 (footnote) (w.q.m.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype worker(s), syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Papua New Guinea: (no further data) (L. Biró). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: The specimens were collected by Biró and sent to Forel by Emery, therefore syntypes may also be present in HNHM and MSNG.

Combination in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925d: 221.
Combination in Nylanderia: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 216; LaPolla et al., 2010a: 127.
Subspecies of Nylanderia obscura: Emery, 1925d: 221; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 216; Bolton, 1995b: 315.

Obsolete combinations

Prenolepis obscura papuana

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
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1901c. Formiciden aus dem Bismarck-Archipel, auf Grundlage des von Prof. Dr. F. Dahl gesammelten Materials. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 2:4-37.
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

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