Papyrius tuberculatus

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Papyrius tuberculatus (Lowne, 1865) junior synonym of current valid taxon Papyrius nitidus (Mayr, 1862)

Acantholepis tuberculatus Lowne, 1865a: 332 (w.) AUSTRALIA (New South Wales). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Australia: New South Wales, vic. Sydney, ix.-xi1862 (B.T. Lowne). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps lost, perhaps BMNH). Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given.

Junior synonym of Papyrius nitidus: Mayr, 1870b: 955; Mayr, 1876: 81; Dalla Torre, 1893: 169; Emery, 1913a: 25; Taylor & Brown, 1985: 101; Taylor, 1987a: 32; Shattuck, 1994: 134; Bolton, 1995b: 311.

Obsolete combinations

Acantholepis tuberculatus

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. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Lowne, B. T. 1865a. Contributions to the natural history of Australian ants. Entomologist 2:275-280. PDF
Mayr, G. 1870b. Neue Formiciden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 20:939-996. PDF
Mayr, G. 1876. Die australischen Formiciden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy 12:56-115. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.

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