Paltothyreus spiniventris
(Smith, 1858)
junior synonym of current valid taxon Paltothyreus tarsatus (Fabricius, 1798)
Ponera spiniventris
Smith, 1858a:
92 (m.)
SIERRA LEONE.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype male. Type-locality: Sierra Leone: (no further data) (D.F. Morgan). Type-depository: BMNH.
Type notes:
Smith, 1858a: 92, states, “In all probability this is the male of Paltothyreus pestilentia.”
- Junior synonym of Paltothyreus tarsatus: Roger, 1860: 310; Roger, 1863b: 17; Mayr, 1863a: 440; Forel, 1891c: 136; Emery, 1892f: 557; Dalla Torre, 1893: 32; Emery, 1911e: 62; Arnold, 1915: 44; Wheeler, 1922: 764; Bolton, 1995b: 310; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 545.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159.
- 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. 1892f ("1891"). Voyage de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire d'Assinie (Afrique occidentale) en juillet et août 1886. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 60:553-574. 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. 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.