Acropyga nipponensis

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Acropyga nipponensis Terayama, 1985 valid

Acropyga (Atopodon) nipponensis Terayama, 1985e: 287, figs. 14-18 (w.) JAPAN. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Japan: Tokyo, Mikura-jima Is., Noboritachi, 30.iii.1980 (K. Masuko). Primary type depository: NIAS. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 16 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 9 paratype workers with same data, 5 paratype workers Japan: Kagoshima Pref., Amami-oshima, Honcha Pass, 3.vii.1983 (M. Terayama), 1 paratype worker Kagoshima Pref., Yoron-to Is, Shinaha, 15.iii.1980 (M. Terayama), 1 paratype worker Japan: Okinawa Pref., Okinawa-honto, Motobu-machi, Tancha, 10.i.1983 (K. Kinomura). Secondary type depositories: OMNH, UTKC.

LaPolla, 2004a: 39 (q.m.)
Status as species: Morisita et al., 1991: 15; Bolton, 1995b: 57; Terayama et al., 2002: 30 (redescription); Imai et al., 2003: 83; LaPolla, 2004a: 39 (redescription); Pfeiffer et al., 2011: 36; Ran & Zhou, 2011: 66; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 27.
Senior synonym of Acropyga jiangxiensis: LaPolla, 2004a: 39

Junior synonyms

Acropyga jiangxiensis Wang & Wu, 1992

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. 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
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Morisita, M.; Kubota, M.; Onoyama, K.; Ogata, K.; Terayama, M.; Yamauchi, K.; Sonobe, R.; Kondoh, M.; Imai, H. T. 1991. A guide for the identification of Japanese ants. II. Dolichoderinae and Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). [In Japanese.]. Tokyo: Myrmecological Society of Japan, 56 pp.
Pfeiffer, M.; Mezger, D.; Hosoishi, S.; Bakhtiar, E. Y.; Kohout, R. J. 2011. The Formicidae of Borneo (Insecta: Hymenoptera): a preliminary species list. Asian Myrmecology 4:9-58. PDF
Ran, H.; Zhou, S. 2011. Checklist of Chinese ants: the formicomorph subfamilies. Journal of Guangxi Normal University, Natural Science Edition 29 (3):65-73.
Terayama, M. 1985e. Two new species of the genus Acropyga (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Taiwan and Japan. Kontyû 53:284-289. PDF
Terayama, M.; Fellowes, J. R.; Zhou, S. 2002. The East Asian species of the ant genus Acropyga Roger, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae). Edaphologia 70:21-32. PDF

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