Dacetinops ignotus

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Indo-Australian Region: New Guinea.

Nomenclature

 * . Dacetinops ignotus Taylor, 1985: 62, figs. 25-27 (w.q.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 11 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens.
 * Type-locality: holotype Papua New Guinea: Northern Prov., 8 km. S Kokoda (8°57’S, 147°43’E), ca 800 m., 8.vi.1972, ANIC berlesates 382, 389 (R.W. Taylor); paratypes: 3 workers, 2 queens with same data, 2 workers Kokoda, 6.iv.1972 (P.M. Room), 1 worker nr Kokoda, ca 500 m., 1.vi.1972 (R.W. Taylor), 3 workers Popondetta, 6,15.ii.1972 (P.M. Room), 1 worker nr Popondetta, <50 m., 31.v.1972 (R.W. Taylor), 1 worker nr Dobodura, on Samboga River, 100 ft, 14.i.1971 (B.B. Lowery).
 * Type-depositories: ANIC (holotype); ANIC, BMNH, MCZC, MHNG (paratypes).
 * Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 168.
 * Distribution: Papua New Guinea.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * CSIRO Collection
 * Janda M., G. D. Alpert, M. L. Borowiec, E. P. Economo, P. Klimes, E. Sarnat, and S. O. Shattuck. 2011. Cheklist of ants described and recorded from New Guinea and associated islands. Available on http://www.newguineants.org/. Accessed on 24th Feb. 2011.
 * Lucky A., L. E. Alonso, E. Sarnat, and J. Hulr. 2015. Ants and scolytine beetles. In: Richards, S.J. and N. Whitmore (editors) 2015. A rapid biodiversity assessment of Papua New Guinea's Hindenburg Wall region. Wildlife Conservation Society Papua New Guinea Program. Goroka, PNG.
 * Snelling R. R. 1998. Insect Part 1: The social Hymenoptera. In Mack A. L. (Ed.) A Biological Assessment of the Lakekamu Basin, Papua New Guinea, RAP 9. 189 ppages
 * Snelling R. R. 2000. Ants of the Wapoga river area, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. In Mack, Andrew L. and Leeanne E. Alonso (eds.). 2000. A Biological Assessment of the Wapoga River Area of Northwestern Irian Jaya, Indonesia. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment 14, Conservation International, Washington, DC.
 * Taylor, R. W. 1985. The ants of the Papuasian genus Dacetinops (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Pp. 41-67 in: Ball, G. E. (ed.) 1985. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and zoogeography of beetles and ants: a volume dedicated to the memory of Philip Jackson Darlington, Jr., 1904-1983. Series Entomologica (Dordrecht) 33:1-514.