Oecophthora ceylonica
Motschoulsky, 1863:
18 (s.w.q.m.)
SRI LANKA.
Indomalaya.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype major workers, syntype minor workers, syntype queen(s), syntype male(s) (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): Mts of Nura-Ellia (= Nuwara Eliya), Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): Patannas (V. Motschoulsky), Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): vic. Colombo (V. Motschoulsky). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps ZMUM).
- Combination in Pheidole: Mayr, 1863a: 438
- Status as species: Smith, 1871a: 333; Dalla Torre, 1893: 89; Emery, 1922c: 97; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 140; Bolton, 1995b: 319; Dias et al., 2020: 81.
Obsolete combinations
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
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Dias, R. K. S.; Guénard, B.; Akbar, S. A.; Economo, E. P.; Udayakantha, W. S.; Wachkoo, A. A. 2020. The ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist. ZooKeys 967:1-142. 10.3897/zookeys.967.54432 PDF
- Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
- Motschoulsky, V. de 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'île Ceylan (suite). Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3):1-153.
- Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF