Xymmer muticus

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Xymmer muticus (Santschi, 1914) valid

Stigmatomma (Xymmer) muticum Santschi, 1914d: 311, fig. 2 (w.) NIGERIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Nigeria: Ibadan (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0217322. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 126, records only 1 syntype in NHMB; it is assumed the other 3 are in the Silvestri collection in DEUN.

Combination in Xymmer: Wheeler, 1922: 758.
Combination in Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 168.
Combination in Xymmer: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a: 19.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 758; Brown, 1960a: 168; Bolton, 1995b: 62.

Obsolete combinations

Stigmatomma muticum

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
Yoshimura, M.; Fisher, B. L. 2012a. A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE 7 (3):e33325. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 PDF

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