Ocymyrmex phraxus
Bolton, 1981b:
274, fig. 27 (w.)
TANZANIA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Tanzania ("Tanganyika"): Shinyanga, viii.1949 (B.K. coll). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 4 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MHNG.
- Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1278 (eq.)
- Status as species: Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1301; Bolton, 1995b: 294; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 214.
Citations
- 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
- 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