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Ponerinae

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  • 3. flaviaesteves @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6613 - 1343
  • 4. martynova _ kv @ ukr. net; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9896 - 3504
  • 5. bazhenowa. tanya 63 @ gmail. com

Description

Leptogenys (Lobopelta) diminuta Sm. subsp. fruhstorferi Em. var. nitidula Santschi, 1928: 139 (replacement name for Leptogenys (Lobopelta) diminuta Sm. subsp. fruhstorferi Em. var. nitida Karawajew, 1927a: 6, w, junior primary homonym of Leptogenys nitida (Smith F., 1858: 92) (see also Bolton 1995, 2023).

Current status: unavailable (infrasubspecific) name (s/f Ponerinae).

Type locality(-ies): “ Prinsen-Eiland in der Sundastrasse, 5.1.191 3 (nr. 3013), ww”.

Original Karawajew labels: 2 w, “Prinsen-Eiland, / V. Karavaiev, / 3013”.

Material: SYNTYPES, 2 w (Box 4).

Notes. There are also three workers with the labels “Prinsen-Eiland, / V. Karavaiev, / 2400”, “ Leptogenys / (Lobopelta) / diminuta Sm. / fruhstorferi v. / nitidula Sant. / n. nom. typus ”, “Cotypus / Leptogenys / diminuta fruhstorf. / nitidula Sant.”. The collection number of this sample does not correspond with that of the original description, but these workers are without a doubt conspecific with those of the sample number 3013; CASENT number of the latter workers is 0916839.

Notes

Published as part of Radchenko, Alexander G., Fisher, Brian L., Esteves, Flavia A., Martynova, Ekateryna V., Bazhenova, Tatyana N. & Lasarenko, Svetlana N., 2023, Ant type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the collection of Volodymyr Opanasovych Karawajew. Communication 1. Dorylinae, Poneromorpha and Pseudomyrmecinae, pp. 1-32 in Zootaxa 5244 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5244.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7645729

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Taxon rank
subFamily
Type status
holotype

References

  • Santschi, F. (1928) Fourmis de Sumatra, recoltees par Mr. J. B. Corporaal. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 71, 119 - 140.
  • Karawajew, W. (1927 a) Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. III. Zbirnyk Prats' Zoolohichnoho Muzeyu, 3, 3 - 52.
  • Bolton, B. (1995) A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Harvard University Press, Cambridge-London, 504 pp.
  • Bolton, B. (2023) An online catalog of the ants of the world. Available from: http: // www. antcat. org / (accessed 1 January 2023)