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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Bothroponera
›
Bothroponera crassa
Bothroponera
crassa
(Emery, 1877)
valid
Ponera crassa
Emery, 1877a
: 366, fig. (w.) ERITREA. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Joma & Mackay, 2017
: 14). Type-locality: lectotype Eritrea: Bogos, Sciotel [15°30’0’’N 38°14’0’’E], 1870 (
O. Beccari
). Type-depository:
MSNG
.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 1 paralectotype worker. Paratype-locality: same as for lectotype. Paratype-depository:
MSNG
.
Lectotype designation:
Joma & Mackay, 2017
: 14.
Joma & Mackay, 2017
: 14 (m.).
Combination in
Pachycondyla (Bothroponera)
:
Emery, 1895b
: 177;
Emery, 1901b
: 46
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 304
Combination in
Bothroponera
:
Emery, 1892
: 111;
Wheeler, 1922
: 73;
Santschi, 1930a
: 53;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 77.
Status as species:
Emery, 1892
: 111;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 36;
Forel, 1894b
: 75;
André, 1895a
: 2;
Emery, 1895b
: 177;
Forel, 1910c
: 243;
Emery, 1911e
: 77;
Forel, 1913i
: 347;
Santschi, 1914b
: 50;
Wheeler, 1922
: 73 (in key), 769;
Finzi, 1939a
: 154;
Menozzi, 1939c
: 98;
Bernard, 1953b
: 188;
Bolton, 1995b
: 304;
Hita Garcia
et al.
, 2013
: 220;
Joma & Mackay, 2017
: 14 (redescription);
Madl, 2019
: 16.
Obsolete combinations
Pachycondyla crassa
Ponera crassa
Citations
André, Ern.
1895a.
Formicides de l'Ogooué (Congo français).
Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 14:1-5.
PDF
Bernard, F.
1953b ("1952").
La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae.
Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1995a.
[Untitled. Taxonomic changes in
Pachycondyla
and
Neoponera
attributed to Brown.].
Pp. 302-311 in:
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.
1877a.
Catalogo delle formiche esistenti nelle collezioni del Museo Civico di Genova. Parte prima. Formiche provenienti dal Viaggio dei signori Antinori, Beccari e Issel nel Mar Rosso e nel paese dei Bogos. [part].
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 9:363-368.
PDF
Emery, C.
1892.
Sopra alcune formiche raccolte dall'Ingegnere L. Bricchetti Robecchi nel paese dei Somali. Dummy reference.
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 32[=(2)12]:110-122.
Emery, C.
1895b.
Esplorazione del Giuba e dei suoi affluenti compiuta dal Cap. V. Bottego durante gli anni 1892-93 sotto gli auspicii della Società Geografica Italiana. Risultati zoologici. X. Formiche.
Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 35[=(2)15]:175-184.
PDF
Emery, C.
1901b.
Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides).
Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54.
PDF
Emery, C.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
PDF
Finzi, B.
1939a.
Materiali zoologici dell'Eritrea raccolti da G. Müller durante la spedizione dell'Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese e conservati al Museo di Trieste. Parte III. Hymenoptera: Formicidae.
Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste 14:153-168.
PDF
Forel, A.
1894b.
Abessinische und andere afrikanische Ameisen, gesammelt von Herrn Ingenieur Alfred Ilg, von Herrn Dr. Liengme, von Herrn Pfarrer Missionar P. Berthoud, Herrn Dr. Arth. Müller etc.
Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 9:64-100.
PDF
Forel, A.
1910c.
Ameisen aus der Kolonie Erythräa. Gesammelt von Prof. Dr. K. Escherich (nebst einigen in West-Abessinien von Herrn A. Ilg gesammelten Ameisen).
Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 29:243-274.
PDF
Forel, A.
1913i.
Quelques fourmis du Musée du Congo Belge (1).
Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:347-359.
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
Joma, A. M. A.
;
Mackay, W. P.
2017.
Revision of the African ants of the
Bothroponera sulcata
species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae).
Transactions of the American Entomological Society 143:7-71.
PDF
Madl, M.
2019.
Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist.
Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B Für Botanik Und Zoologie 121:9-18.
PDF
Menozzi, C.
1939c.
Hymenoptera Formicidae.
Missione Biologica nel Paese dei Borana 3:97-110.
Santschi, F.
1914b.
Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae.
Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148.
PDF
Santschi, F.
1930a.
Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V.
Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70:49-77.
PDF
Schmidt, C. A.
;
Shattuck, S. O.
2014.
The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior.
Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242.
10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1
PDF
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1922.
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