Megaponera abyssinica

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Megaponera abyssinica (Guérin-Méneville, 1849) junior synonym of current valid taxon Megaponera analis (Latreille, 1802)

Ponera abyssinica Guérin-Méneville, 1849: 352, pl. 7, fig. 6 (w.) ETHIOPIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Ethiopia (“Abyssinia”): (no further data). Primary type depository: MNHN. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 99, Guérin’s Hymenoptera material was split between MNHN, MSNG, and ZSBS, but some are also present in NNML.

Status as species: Smith, 1858a: 90; Radoszkowsky, 1876: 140
Junior synonym of Megaponera foetens: Roger, 1860: 310; Mayr, 1863a: 428; Roger, 1863b: 17; Dalla Torre, 1893: 31; Emery, 1911e: 68; Wheeler, 1922: 767; Menozzi, 1930b: 79.
Junior synonym of Megaponera analis: Bolton, 1995b: 302

Obsolete combinations

Ponera abyssinica

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Guérin-Méneville, F. E. 1849. Insectes. Pp. 241-398 in: Lefebvre, T. 1849. 1847-1851. Voyage en Abyssinie exécuté pendant les années 1839-1843. Pt. IV. Tom. VI. Histoire naturelle - Zoologie. Paris: Bertrand, 398 pp.
Horn, W.; Kahle, I. 1935. Sammlungen, welche ihren Eigentümer gewechselt haben [Part 1]. Entomologische Beihefte aus Berlin-Dahlem 2:1-160.
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1930b. Formiche della Somalia italiana meridionale. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 9:76-130. PDF
Radoszkowsky, O. 1876. Comte-rendu des hyménoptères recueillis en Égypte et Abyssinie en 1873. Trudy Russkago Entomologicheskago Obshchestva 12:111-150. PDF
Roger, J. 1860. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 4:278-312. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
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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