Ocymyrmex turneri

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Ocymyrmex turneri Donisthorpe, 1931 valid

Ocymyrmex turneri Donisthorpe, 1931d: 499 (w.) NAMIBIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Namibia (“South West Africa”): Walvis Bay, 1.xii.1927 (R.E. Turner). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900393.

Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1278 (eq.)
Status as species: Bolton, 1981b: 279 (redescription); Marsh, 1986b: 340; Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1305; 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
Donisthorpe, H. 1931d. Descriptions of some new species of ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)8:494-501. PDF
Marsh, A. C. 1986b. Checklist, biological notes and distribution of ants in the central Namib Desert. Madoqua 14:333-344. PDF

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