Philidris nagasau alticola

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Philidris nagasau alticola (Mann, 1921) junior synonym of current valid taxon Philidris nagasau (Mann, 1921)

Iridomyrmex nagasau subsp. alticola Mann, 1921: 472 (w.) FIJI (Taveuni). Oceania.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a series”). Primary type locality: Fiji Is: Taveuni I., Nagasau, nr Lake (= Lake Caginitoba), 1915-16 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depositories: MCZC, USNM. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 138, cites 39 worker syntypes (15 MCZC, 24 USNM).

Combination in Philidris: Shattuck, 1992a: 18.
Subspecies of Philidris nagasau: Wheeler, 1935g: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 138; Bolton, 1995b: 334.
Junior synonym of Philidris nagasau: Sarnat & Economo, 2012: 36.

Obsolete combinations

Iridomyrmex nagasau alticola

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64:401-499. PDF
Sarnat, E. M.; Economo, E. P. 2012. The ants of Fiji. University of California Publications in Entomology, Volume 132. Berkeley: University of California Press, xiii + 384 pp. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1992a. Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:13-18. 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, 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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