Technomyrmex lujae - AntCat

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Technomyrmex lujae (Forel, 1905) valid

Engramma lujae Forel, 1905e: 181 (w.m.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated), syntype males (number not stated). Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo inférieur belge”): Kasai, Kondue (E. Luja). Primary type depository: MCZC, MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0909756. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 164, cites 12 worker, 7 male syntypes.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 194 (l.)
Combination in Technomyrmex: Shattuck, 1992c: 161
Status as species: Forel, 1911h: 279; Emery, 1913a: 38; Wheeler, 1922: 202 (in key), 923; Shattuck, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 402; Bolton, 2007b: 26 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Technomyrmex griseopubens: Bolton, 2007b: 26.
Senior synonym of Technomyrmex lujae pulliceps: Bolton, 2007b: 26.
Senior synonym of Technomyrmex lujae wasmanni: Bolton, 2007b: 26.

Junior synonyms

Technomyrmex griseopubens (Wheeler, 1922)
Obsolete combination(s): Engramma griseopubens
Technomyrmex lujae pulliceps (Santschi, 1926)
Obsolete combination(s): Engramma lujae pulliceps
Technomyrmex lujae wasmanni (Forel, 1916)
Obsolete combination(s): Engramma lujae wasmanni

Obsolete combinations

Engramma lujae

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2007b. Taxonomy of the dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 35(1):1-150. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1905e. Miscellanea myrmécologiques II (1905). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 49:155-185. PDF
Forel, A. 1911h. Fourmis d'Afrique et d'Asie. I. Fourmis d'Afrique surtout du Musée du Congo Belge. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 1:274-283. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1951. The ant larvae of the subfamily Dolichoderinae. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 53:169-210. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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