Prionopelta mocsaryi

Prionopelta mocsaryi Forel, 1907 junior synonym of current valid taxon Prionopelta opaca Emery, 1897

Prionopelta mocsaryi Forel, 1907d: 1 (w.) PARAGUAY. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Paraguay: Asuncion (Anisits). Primary type depository: HNHM. Type notes: Brown, 1958k: 149, doubts the veracity of this type locality and implies that correctly it is most probably New Guinea.

[Misspelled as moczaryi by Emery, 1911e: 33.]
Status as species: Forel, 1909a: 242 (in key); Emery, 1911e: 33.
Junior synonym of Prionopelta opaca: Brown, 1958k: 149; Brown, 1960a: 178, 216; Bolton, 1995b: 365; Shattuck, 2008b: 29.

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. 1958k. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Prionopelta attributed to Brown.]. P. 149 in: 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
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 5:1-42. PDF
Forel, A. 1909a. Ameisen aus Guatemala usw., Paraguay und Argentinien (Hym.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1909:239-269. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 2008b. Revision of the ant genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Indo-Pacific region. Zootaxa 1846:21-34. PDF

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