Bothroponera laevissima

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Bothroponera laevissima (Arnold, 1915) valid

Pachycondyla (Bothroponera) laevissima Arnold, 1915: 58, pl. 2, fig. 15, 15a (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Joma & Mackay, 2015: 553). Primary type locality: lectotype South Africa: Cape Prov., Saldanha Bay, ix.1912 (L. Péringuey). Primary type depository: SAMC (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 3 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, SAMC. Type notes: 2 worker syntypes in BMNH should be included as paralectotypes.

Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 306.
Combination in Bothroponera: Wheeler, 1922: 73; Joma & Mackay, 2013: 3; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 73 (in key), 770; Arnold, 1962: 844; Arnold, 1952a: 462 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 306; Joma & Mackay, 2015: 553 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Pachycondyla laevissima

Citations

Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159.
Arnold, G. 1952a. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493. PDF
Arnold, G. 1962. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 16. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia. B. Natural Sciences 3:844-855. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus Bothroponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Psyche 2013 Article ID 917847:8 pp. 10.1155/2013/917847 PDF
Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2015. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera pumicosa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Sociobiology 62:538-563. 10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845 PDF
Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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