Temnothorax africanus
(Bernard, 1948)
valid
Epimyrma (Gonepimyrma) africana
Bernard, 1948:
148, fig. 7a,b (w.)
LIBYA.
Palearctic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Libya: Fezzân, El Abiod, 1944-45 (F. Bernard). Type-depository: MNHN.
- Combination in Temnothorax: Ward et al., 2015: 75.
- Status as species: Kutter, 1973f: 289; Buschinger, 1989a: 266; Schulz, 1994b: 432; Bolton, 1995b: 188; Borowiec, 2014: 136.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bernard, F. 1948. Les insectes sociaux du Fezzân. Comportement et biogéographie. Pp. 87-200 in: Bernard, F.; Peyerimhoff, P. de 1948. Mission scientifique du Fezzân (1944-1945). Tome V. Zoologie. Alger: Institut de Recherches Sahariennes de l'Université d'Alger, 248 pp. 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
- Buschinger, A. 1989a. Evolution, speciation, and inbreeding in the parasitic ant genus Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2:265-283. PDF
- Kutter, H. 1973f. Beitrag zur Lösung taxonomischer Probleme in der Gattung Epimyrma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 46:281-289. PDF
- Schulz, A. 1994b. Epimyrma birgitae nova species, eine sozialparasitische Ameisenart (Hym.: Formicidae) auf Teneriffa (Kanarische Inseln, Spanien). Beiträge zur Entomologie 44:431-440. PDF
- Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF