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Issue: Vol. 1732 No. 1: 25 Mar. 2008
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2008-03-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1732.1.5
Page range: 61–64
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 18

New synonyms in neotropical Myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

c/o. Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K
Maryland Center for Systematic Entomology, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, 4112 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, Maryland 20742, U.S.A Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, POB 37012, NHB, CE518, MRC 188; Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá D.C, Colombia
Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 4579, Maracay 2101-A, Venezuela
Hymenoptera Formicidae

Abstract

The year 2007 saw the publication of what is one of the most inadequate papers that has ever been produced in ant taxonomy. The paper, by Makhan (2007), claims to describe six new species of the ant genus Pyramica Roger, from Suriname.

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