Calomyrmex tropicus

Calomyrmex tropicus (Smith, 1861) valid

Formica tropica Smith, 1861b: 37 (w.) INDONESIA (Halmahera). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Indonesia: Gilolo (= Halmahera I.), “Gil.” (A.R. Wallace). Primary type depository: OXUM. Primary type specimen: CASENT0901888. Type notes: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 465, cites 1 worker in OXUM; (confirmed by Bolton (unpublished notes) 1978).

Combination in Calomyrmex: Donisthorpe, 1932c: 465
Status as species: Mayr, 1863a: 421; Smith, 1871a: 308; Dalla Torre, 1893: 213; Donisthorpe, 1932c: 465; Bolton, 1995b: 83.

Obsolete combinations

Formica tropica

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
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
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Smith, F. 1861b. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Ceram, Celebes, Ternate, and Gilolo. [part]. Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 6:36-48. PDF
Smith, F. 1871a. A catalogue of the Aculeate Hymenoptera and Ichneumonidae of India and the Eastern Archipelago. With introductory remarks by A. R. Wallace. [part]. Journal of the Linnean Society of London. Zoology 11:285-348. PDF