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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Formicinae
›
Lasiini
›
Prenolepis
›
Prenolepis nitens
›
Prenolepis nitens americana
Prenolepis
nitens
americana
Forel, 1891
junior synonym of current valid taxon
Prenolepis imparis
(Say, 1836)
Prenolepis nitens var. americana
Forel, 1891c
: 94, pl. 3, fig. 4 (m.) U.S.A. Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) male. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: (no further data). Primary type depository:
MHNG
.
Type notes:
No indication of number of specimens is given.
Junior synonym of
Prenolepis imparis
:
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 178;
Emery, 1893k
: 635;
Ruzsky, 1905b
: 262;
Emery, 1925d
: 225;
Wheeler, 1930c
: 15;
Creighton, 1950a
: 414;
Smith, 1951c
: 849;
Smith, 1979
: 1445;
Bolton, 1995b
: 363;
Williams & LaPolla, 2016
: 222.
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Creighton, W. S.
1950a.
The ants of North America.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585.
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Dalla Torre, K. W.
1893.
Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna).
Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp.
PDF
Emery, C.
1893k.
Beiträge zur Kenntniss der nordamerikanischen Ameisenfauna.
Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 7:633-682.
PDF
Emery, C.
1925d.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae.
Genera Insectorum 183:1-302.
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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
Ruzsky, M.
1905b.
The ants of Russia. (Formicariae Imperii Rossici). Systematics, geography and data on the biology of Russian ants. Part I. [In Russian.].
Trudy Obshchestva Estestvoispytatelei pri Imperatorskom Kazanskom Universitete 38(4-6):1-800.
Smith, D. R.
1979.
Superfamily Formicoidea.
Pp. 1323-1467 in:
Krombein, K. V.
;
Hurd, P. D.
;
Smith, D. R.
;
Burks, B. D.
(eds.) 1979.
Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata).
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R.
1951c.
Family Formicidae.
Pp. 778-875 in:
Muesebeck, C. F. W.
;
Krombein, K. V.
;
Townes, H. K.
(eds.) 1951.
Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture.
Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420.
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Wheeler, W. M.
1930c.
The ant
Prenolepis imparis
Say.
Annals of the Entomological Society of America 23:1-26.
PDF
Williams, J. L.
;
LaPolla, J. S.
2016.
Taxonomic revision and phylogeny of the ant genus
Prenolepis
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Zootaxa 4200:201-258.
10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.1
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