Asphinctopone lamottei

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Asphinctopone lamottei (Bernard, 1953) junior synonym of current valid taxon Asphinctopone silvestrii Santschi, 1914

Lepidopone lamottei Bernard, 1953b: 208, fig. 4 (w.) GUINEA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Guinea (“French Guinea”): st. 22: Nion, 700m. (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MNHN. Type notes: Data on holotype label: 22. Nyon For. (= Mt Nion For., Nimba Mts), 10.i.(1942), 8/2 (M. Lamotte).

Combination in Asphinctopone: Brown, 1953h: 3.
Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 75.
Junior synonym of Asphinctopone silvestrii: Bolton & Fisher, 2008a: 57.

Obsolete combinations

Lepidopone lamottei

Citations

Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2008a. The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Asphinctopone Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1827:53-61. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953h. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part II. Breviora 18:1-8. PDF

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