Microdaceton exornatum

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Microdaceton exornatum Santschi, 1913 valid

Microdaceton exornatum Santschi, 1913g: 478 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal, Zululand, Dukudu, 3.viii.1905 (I. Trägårdh). Primary type depository: unknown (not in NHMB, presumed lost (Bolton, 1983: 402, Bolton, 2000: 28); perhaps NHRS). Type notes: Locality data in part from Santschi, 1914e: 33.

[Also described as new by Santschi, 1914e: 33.]
Arnold, 1948: 225 (q.)
Status as species: Santschi, 1914e: 33; Arnold, 1917: 384; Wheeler, 1922: 917; Emery, 1924f: 317; Arnold, 1948: 225; Bolton, 1983: 402 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 258; Bolton, 2000: 28 (redescription); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 212.
Senior synonym of Microdaceton exornatum laevior: Bolton, 1983: 402; Bolton, 1995b: 258; Bolton, 2000: 28.
Senior synonym of Microdaceton leakeyi: Bolton, 1983: 402; Bolton, 1995b: 258; Bolton, 2000: 28.

Junior synonyms

Microdaceton exornatum laevior Arnold, 1948
Microdaceton leakeyi Patrizi, 1947

Citations

Arnold, G. 1917. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part III. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:271-402. PDF
Arnold, G. 1948. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 8. Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:213-250. PDF
Bolton, B. 1983. The Afrotropical dacetine ants (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 46:267-416. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. 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
Santschi, F. 1913g. Genre nouveau et espèce nouvelle de Formicides (Hym.). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1913:478. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914e. Meddelanden från Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Afdelning. 3. Fourmis du Natal et du Zoulouland récoltées par le Dr. I. Trägårdh. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 15:1-44.
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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