Platythyrea melancholica aruana

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Platythyrea melancholica aruana Karavaiev, 1925 junior synonym of current valid taxon Platythyrea parallela (Smith, 1859)

Platythyrea melancholica var. aruana Karavaiev, 1925a: 75 (in text) (w.) INDONESIA (Aru Is). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Type-material: 20 syntype workers. Type-locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, Wammer I., Nr. 2646 (W. Karawaiew). Type-depository: SIZK.

Junior synonym of Platythyrea parallela: Wilson, 1958c: 151; Brown, 1975: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 336.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1925a. Ponerinen (Fam. Formicidae) aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. Konowia 4:69-81. PDF
Wilson, E. O. 1958c. Studies on the ant fauna of Melanesia. I. The tribe Leptogenyini. II. The tribes Amblyoponini and Platythyreini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:101-153. PDF

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