Plagiolepis alluaudi ornata

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Plagiolepis alluaudi ornata Santschi, 1920 junior synonym of current valid taxon Plagiolepis alluaudi Emery, 1894

Plagiolepis foreli var. ornata Santschi, 1920g: 166 (w.) NEW CALEDONIA, GERMANY (in hothouse), KENYA. Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: New Caledonia: Coné (F. Sarasin & J. Roux), New Caledonia: Loyalty Is, Maré, Netché (F. Sarasin & J. Roux), Germany: Bonn, orchid house (A. Reichensperger), Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Likoni, nr Mombasa (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel). Primary type depository: NHMB (perhaps also MSNG). Primary type specimen: CASENT0912414. Type notes: This taxon is based on Plagiolepis exigua quadrimaculata Forel, 1902j, sensu Emery, 1914f: 421, misidentification.

Subspecies of Plagiolepis alluaudi: Emery, 1921d: 318; Emery, 1925d: 19; Wheeler, 1935g: 38.
Junior synonym of Plagiolepis alluaudi: Smith, 1958b: 196; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 85; Smith, 1979: 1423; Bolton, 1995b: 335; Imai et al., 2003: 82.

Obsolete combinations

Plagiolepis foreli ornata

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caledonia. A. Zoologie 1:393-437. PDF
Emery, C. 1921d. Notes critiques de myrmécologie. [IX-X.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 61:313-319. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Imai, H. T.; Kihara, A.; Kondoh, M.; Kubota, M.; Kuribayashi, S.; Ogata, K.; Onoyama, K.; Taylor, R. W.; Terayama, M.; Tsukii, Y.; Yoshimura, M.; Ugawa, Y. 2003. Ants of Japan. Tokyo: Gakken, 224 pp. PDF
Santschi, F. 1920g. Cinq nouvelles notes sur les fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 53:163-186. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1958b ("1957"). A contribution to the taxonomy, distribution and biology of the vagrant ant, Plagiolepis alluaudi Emery (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 65:195-198. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.
Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF

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