Carebara octata
(Bolton & Belshaw, 1993)
valid
Paedalgus octatus
Bolton & Belshaw, 1993:
186 (w.)
KENYA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Kenya: Lamu, nr Witu, 26.x.1977 (V. Mahnert & J.-L. Perret). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911213.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 8 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MHNG, NHMB, SAMC. Secondary type specimen: CASENT0902370.
- Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235
- Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 311; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 208.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B.; Belshaw, R. 1993. Taxonomy and biology of the supposedly lestobiotic ant genus Paedalgus (Hym.: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 18:181-189. PDF
- Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. PDF
- Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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