Mesoponera elisae divaricata

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

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Mesoponera elisae divaricata (Emery, 1915) valid

Euponera (Xiphopelta) elisae subsp. divaricata Emery, 1915e: 6, fig. 3 (w.) ERITREA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Eritrea: Cheren, 23.viii.-9.ix.1914 (F. Silvestri) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 775; no lectotype designated), Eritrea: Ghinda, 23.viii.-9.ix.1914 (F. Silvestri), Eritrea: Nefasit, 23.viii.-9.ix.1914 (F. Silvestri). Primary type depositories: MSNG, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0903933. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 135, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB.

Combination in Euponera (Mesoponera): Wheeler, 1922: 775.
Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 305.
Combination in Mesoponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 110.
Subspecies of Mesoponera elisae: Wheeler, 1922: 775; Santschi, 1935b: 260 (in key); Finzi, 1939a: 161; Bolton, 1995b: 305; Madl, 2019: 17.

Obsolete combinations

Euponera elisae divaricata

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
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.
Emery, C. 1915e. Formiche raccolte nell'Eritrea dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 10:3-26. 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
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
Santschi, F. 1935b. Hymenoptera. I. Formicidae. Mission Scientifique de l'Omo 2:255-277.
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
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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