Ocymyrmex hirsutus

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Ocymyrmex hirsutus Forel, 1910 valid

Ocymyrmex weitzeckeri subsp. hirsutus Forel, 1910e: 13 (w.) BOTSWANA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Botswana: Kalahari, Severelela (L. Schultze) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1922: 893). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMUK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0900409, CASENT0909073. Type notes: 1) Type locality was incorrectly given as Namibia (“South West Africa”) by Bolton, 1981b: 271; corrected by Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1297. 2) Other synype locality: Botswana: Kalahari, Kooa (L. Schultze).

Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1278 (eq.)
Subspecies of Ocymyrmex weitzeckeri: Arnold, 1916: 198; Wheeler, 1922: 893; Stitz, 1923: 146.
Status as species: Santschi, 1914a: 431; Emery, 1924f: 271; Bolton, 1981b: 271 (redescription); Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1297; Bolton, 1995b: 294.

Obsolete combinations

Ocymyrmex weitzeckeri hirsutus

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. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 43:245-307. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.; Marsh, A. C. 1989. The Afrotropical thermophilic ant genus Ocymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 23:1267-1308. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Forel, A. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914a ("1913"). Mélanges myrmecologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:429-437. PDF
Stitz, H. 1923. Hymenoptera, VII. Formicidae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Land- und Süsswasserfauna Deutsch-Südwestafrikas 2:143-167.
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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