Ocymyrmex sphinx
Bolton, 1981b:
278, fig. 21 (w.)
BOTSWANA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Botswana: 18 miles NE of Kalkfontein, 12-13.iv.1972, no. B3 (M.C. Day). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 19 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: Botswana: Kuke Pan, 26.iii.1930, Vernay-Lang Kalahari Expd. (G.U. Son). Secondary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, SAMC.
- Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1278 (eq.)
- Status as species: Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1304; Bolton, 1995b: 294.
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