Centromyrmex rufigaster
(Arnold, 1916)
junior synonym of current valid taxon Centromyrmex bequaerti (Forel, 1913)
Glyphopone (Leptopone) rufigaster
Arnold, 1916:
163, figs. 10, 10a (q.)
ZIMBABWE.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“S. Rhodesia”): Victoria Falls, 5.xii.1914 (G. Arnold). Primary type depository: SAMC.
- Combination in Leptopone: Wheeler, 1922: 766
- Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 766.
- Junior synonym of Centromyrmex bequaerti: Brown, 1963a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 140; Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 11.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Arnold, G. 1916. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part II. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:159-270. 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. 2008c. Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1929:1-37. PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1963a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora 190:1-10. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.