Pyramica amrishi Makhan, 2007: 1

Bolton, B., Sosa-Calvo, J., Fernà ¡ ndez, F. & Lattke, J. E., 2008, New synonyms in neotropical Myrmicine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1732, pp. 61-64 : 62

1. Pyramica amrishi Makhan, 2007: 1 ,

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Holotype and paratype workers, SURINAME: Kasikasima, 27.iii. 1996 (D. Makhan) [not in USPS]. New junior synonym of Octostruma balzani ( Emery, 1894) .

Comment. The author has managed to place this species in the wrong genus and tribe. The photographs are infuriatingly fuzzy but the head shape and distribution of the setae that are visible makes it almost certain that the " new species " amrishi is really one of the commonest and most widely distributed of Neotropical basicerotine ants, Octostruma balzani . Octostruma balzani has been previously collected from Dirkshoop, Sidoredjo, and Tambahredjo; eastern Suriname (Lely and Nassau Plateaus); and Nickerie District.

References: Brown & Kempf (1960); Kempf (1961, 1972); LaPolla et al. (2007); Palacio (1997); Sosa-Calvo (2007); Sosa-Calvo (unpublished).