Baracidris meketra
Bolton, 1981
valid
Baracidris meketra
Bolton, 1981b:
255, figs. 12, 13 (w.q.)
NIGERIA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Nigeria: Ile-Ife, 21.vii.1971 (J.T.. Medler). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type localities: 1 paratype worker with same data as holotype, 1 paratype worker, 1 queen, Ghana: Tafo (= New Tafo, Eastern Region, Akim District, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana), 4.ix.1970, cocoa litter sample (B. Bolton), 1 paratype worker Ivory Coast: Abidjan, Banco Forest, i.1963 (W.L. Brown). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 80; Fernández, 2003b: 35.
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 43:245-307. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Fernández, F. 2003b. Revision of the myrmicine ants of the Adelomyrmex genus-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 361:1-52. PDF