Calyptomyrmex punctatus

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

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Calyptomyrmex punctatus Weber, 1952 junior synonym of current valid taxon Calyptomyrmex piripilis Santschi, 1923

Calyptomyrmex (Calyptomyrmex) punctatus Weber, 1952a: 24, figs. 19, 21, 23 (w.) KENYA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Kenya: 1°25’S, 35°10’W [sic] to 1°38’S, 35°17’E, 4.ii.1948, no. 2039 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: AMNH.

Junior synonym of Calyptomyrmex piripilis: Bolton, 1981a: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 83.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1981a. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 42:43-81. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Weber, N. A. 1952a. Studies on African Myrmicinae, I (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1548:1-32. PDF

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