Orectognathus csikii

Orectognathus csikii Szabó-Patay, 1926 valid

Orectognathus csikii Szabó-Patay, 1926: 351, fig. A,a (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Papua New Guinea (“Nouvelle Guinée”): Astrolabe Bay, Erima, 1897 (L. Biró), and Marega, 1901 (L. Biró). Primary type depository: HNHM.

Status as species: Brown, 1953k: 100; Brown, 1958b: 27 (in key); Taylor & Lowery, 1972: 307 (redescription); Taylor, 1977: 587 (in key); Taylor, 1978b: 11 (in key); Taylor, 1980a: 786; Bolton, 1995b: 301; Bolton, 2000: 22.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953k. A revision of the dacetine ant genus Orectognathus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 13:84-104. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958b ("1957"). A supplement to the revisions of the dacetine ant genera Orectognathus and Arnoldidris, with keys to the species. Psyche (Cambridge) 64:17-29. PDF
Szabó-Patay, J. 1926. Trois Orectognathus nouveaux de la collection du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 24:348-351. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1977. New ants of the Australasian genus Orectognathus, with a key to the known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 25:581-612. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1978b. A taxonomic guide to the ant genus Orectognathus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 3:1-11. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1980a ("1979"). New Australian ants of the genus Orectognathus, with summary description of the twenty-nine known species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 27:773-788. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Lowery, B. B. 1972. The New Guinean species of the ant genus Orectognathus Fr. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 11:306-310.

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