Pachycondyla rufipes

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

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Pachycondyla rufipes (Jerdon, 1851) an obsolete combination of Pseudoneoponera rufipes (Jerdon, 1851)

Ponera rufipes Jerdon, 1851: 119 (w.) INDIA (Karnataka/Kerala; “Malabar”). Indomalaya.

Primary type information: Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated). Type-locality: India: Malabar (T.C. Jerdon). Type-depository: unknown (no material known to exist). Type notes: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 447, points out that two specimens (BMNH, OXUM) labelled as “type” are not type-material; correctly they are Ponera rufipes Jerdon, sensu Smith, 1857a: 67, sensu Smith, 1858a: 106.

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
Jerdon, T. C. 1851. A catalogue of the species of ants found in Southern India. Madras Journal of Literature and Science 17:103-127. PDF
Smith, F. 1857a. Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 2:42-88. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 obsolete combination)

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