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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
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Formicidae
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Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Paltothyreus
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Paltothyreus gagates
Paltothyreus
gagates
(Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
junior synonym of current valid taxon
Paltothyreus tarsatus
(Fabricius, 1798)
Ponera gagates
Guérin-Méneville, 1844a
: 423 (w.) SENEGAL. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype(?) worker. Type-locality: Senegal: banks of the (River) Casamance (no collector’s name). Type-depository:
MNHN
.
Type notes:
No indication of number of specimens is given.
Status as species:
Smith, 1858a
: 90.
Junior synonym of
Paltothyreus tarsatus
:
Roger, 1860
: 310;
Roger, 1863b
: 17;
Mayr, 1863a
: 440;
Forel, 1891c
: 136;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 32;
Emery, 1911e
: 62;
Wheeler, 1922
: 764;
Bolton, 1995b
: 305;
MacKay & MacKay, 2010
: 545.
Obsolete combinations
Ponera gagates
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.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
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.
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Guérin-Méneville, F. E.
1844a.
Iconographie du règne animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d'après nature de l'une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent non encore figurées, de chaque genre d'animaux. Insectes.
Paris: J. B. Baillière, 576 pp.
PDF
MacKay, W. P.
;
MacKay, E.
2010.
The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus
Pachycondyla
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Roger, J.
1860.
Die
Ponera
-artigen Ameisen.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 4:278-312.
PDF
Roger, J.
1863b.
Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65.
PDF
Smith, F.
1858a.
Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae.
London: British Museum, 216 pp.
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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