Bothroponera fugax

Bothroponera fugax (Forel, 1907) valid

Pachycondyla (Bothroponera) fugax Forel, 1907d: 7 (w.) TANZANIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale”): Arusha-chini, Lake Djipé (K. Katona). Primary type depositories: HNHM, MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0916716. Type notes: Joma & Mackay, 2020: 368, cite one syntype (as 'holotype') in NHMB; this specimen is not included in the type-catalogue of Baroni Urbani, 1973b.

Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 305.
Combination in Bothroponera: Wheeler, 1922: 73; Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76.
Status as species: Emery, 1911e: 76; Wheeler, 1922: 73 (in key), 770; Bolton, 1995b: 305; Joma & Mackay, 2020: 366 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Pachycondyla fugax

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. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1907d. Formicides du Musée National Hongrois. Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 5:1-42. PDF
Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2020. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera talpa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 146 (2):355-408. 10.3157/061.146.0206 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.