Stigmacros aemula

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Stigmacros aemula (Forel, 1907) valid

Acantholepis (Stigmacros) aemula Forel, 1907j: 298 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Stat. 118, Fremantle, Kirchhof, 1905 (W. Michaelsen & R. Hartmeyer). Primary type depository: unknown. Type notes: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 145, Taylor, 1992a: 67, say the holotype was in Hamburg Museum and was destroyed in World War II.

Wheeler, 1934d: 159 (q.)
Combination in Stigmacros: Emery, 1925d: 34.
Combination in Stigmacros (Campostigmacros): McAreavey, 1957: 32.
Status as species: Emery, 1925d: 34; Clark, 1938: 375; Wheeler, 1934d: 159; McAreavey, 1957: 32 (redescription); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 145; Taylor, 1987a: 74; Bolton, 1995b: 394; Heterick, 2009: 115 (in key).

Obsolete combinations

Acantholepis aemula

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Clark, J. 1938. The Sir Joseph Banks Islands. Reports of the McCoy Society for Field Investigation and Research. Part 10. Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria (n.s.)50:356-382.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1907j. Formicidae. In: Michaelsen, W.; Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) 1907. Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band I, Lieferung 7. Jena: Gustav Fischer, pp. 263-310. PDF
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
McAreavey, J. 1957. Revision of the genus Stigmacros Forel. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 21:7-64. 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
Taylor, R. W. 1992a. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:57-69. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1934d. Contributions to the fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia. No. IX. The ants. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 20:137-163. PDF

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