Rhytidoponera atropurpurea

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Rhytidoponera atropurpurea Emery, 1914 valid

Rhytidoponera (Chalcoponera) atropurpurea Emery, 1914f: 396 (w.m.) NEW CALEDONIA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward, 1984: 143). Primary type locality: lectotype New Caledonia: Ouedjo, nr Hienghiène, vi.1911 (F. Sarasin & J. Roux). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paralectotype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MHNG, MSNG, NHMB.

Lectotype designation: Ward, 1984: 143.
Combination in Chalcoponera: Wheeler, 1935g: 10.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1935g: 10; Brown, 1958g: 202, 292; Ward, 1984: 143 (redescription); Taylor, 1987a: 71; Bolton, 1995b: 378; Camacho et al., 2022: 12.

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. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
Camacho, G. P.; Franco, W.; Branstetter, M. G.; Pie, M. R.; Longino, J. T.; Schultz, T. R.; Feitosa, R. M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): a new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 5:1-20. 10.1093/isd/ixab026 PDF
Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. 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
Ward, P. S. 1984. A revision of the ant genus Rhytidoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in New Caledonia. Australian Journal of Zoology 32:131-175. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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