Tetraponera nigra insularis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Tetraponera nigra insularis (Emery, 1901) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera nigra (Jerdon, 1851)

Sima nigra var. insularis Emery, 1901h: 113 (w.q.) SRI LANKA. Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Sri Lanka (“Ceylon”): (no further data), 1899 (W. Horn). Primary type depository: MSNG. Type notes: Ward, 2001: 634, cites 2 worker syntypes.

Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 26.
Combination in Tetraponera: Chapman & Capco, 1951: 80.
Subspecies of Tetraponera nigra: Forel, 1903a: 709; Forel, 1909k: 394; Forel, 1911c: 226; Forel, 1913l: 27; Emery, 1921c: 26; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 80; Bolton, 1995b: 418.
Junior synonym of Tetraponera nigra: Ward, 2001: 634

Obsolete combinations

Sima nigra insularis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327. PDF
Emery, C. 1901h. Ameisen gesammelt in Ceylon von Dr. W. Horn 1899. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1901:113-122. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1903a. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part X. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 14:679-715. PDF
Forel, A. 1909k. Études myrmécologiques en 1909. Fourmis de Barbarie et de Ceylan. Nidification des Polyrhachis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 45:369-407. PDF
Forel, A. 1911c. Ameisen aus Ceylon, gesammelt von Prof. K. Escherich (einige von Prof. E. Bugnion). Pp. 215-228 in: Escherich, K. 1911. Termitenleben auf Ceylon. Jena: Gustav Fischer, xxxii + 262 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1913l. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien ausgeführt im Auftrage der Kgl. Preuss. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. II. Ameisen aus Sumatra, Java, Malacca und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. v. Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911-1912. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 36:1-148. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2001. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of the ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Oriental and Australian regions. Invertebrate Taxonomy 15:589-665. PDF

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