Pseudomyrma laeviceps

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Pseudomyrma laeviceps Smith, 1859 an obsolete combination of Tetraponera laeviceps (Smith, 1859)

Pseudomyrma laeviceps Smith, 1859a: 145 (w.) INDONESIA (Aru Is). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Aru Is, “Aru 21”, “Aru” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depositories: BMNH, OXUM. Type notes: 1) Donisthorpe, 1932c: 455, cites 1 worker in OXUM (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978). 2) Ward, 2001: 630, cites 2 worker syntypes in BMNH.

Citations

Donisthorpe, H. 1932c. On the identity of Smith's types of Formicidae (Hymenoptera) collected by Alfred Russell Wallace in the Malay Archipelago, with descriptions of two new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)10:441-476. PDF
Smith, F. 1859a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace at the islands of Aru and Key. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 3:132-158. 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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