Bothriomyrmex breviceps
Santschi, 1919
valid
Bothriomyrmex breviceps
Santschi, 1919i:
207, pl. 2, figs. 3, 4 (w.q.m.)
TUNISIA.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype queen (by designation of Seifert, 2012b: 101). Primary type locality: lectotype Tunisia: La Ouareb, 21.xii.1910 (F. Santschi). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 7 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype male. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes:
1) Original description cites 18 worker, 1 queen, 1 male syntypes. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 78, and Shattuck, 1994: 32, cite only 10 worker syntypes in NHMB.
- Lectotype designation: Seifert, 2012b: 101.
- Status as species: Cagniant, 1968a: 145; Shattuck, 1994: 32; Bolton, 1995b: 81; Seifert, 2012b: 101; Borowiec, 2014: 22.
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
- Cagniant, H. 1968a. Liste préliminaire de fourmis forestières d'Algérie. Résultats obtenus de 1963 à 1966. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 104:138-147. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1919i. Fourmis du genre Bothriomyrmex Emery. (Systématique et moeurs.). Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 7:201-224. PDF
- Seifert, B. 2012b. A review of the West Palaearctic species of the ant genus Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 17:91-104. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae