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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Bothroponera
›
Bothroponera pumicosa
Bothroponera
pumicosa
(Roger, 1860)
valid
Ponera pumicosa
Roger, 1860
: 290 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: South Africa (“Africa im Kaffernlande”): (no further data). Type-depository:
SAMC
.
[Misspelled as
pumicata
by
Raffray, 1887
: 21.]
Forel, 1901k
: 344 (m.);
Wheeler & Wheeler, 1971c
: 390 (l.)
Combination in
Pachycondyla (Bothroponera)
:
Emery, 1901b
: 45.
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 308.
Combination in
Bothroponera
:
Mayr, 1862
: 717;
Roger, 1863b
: 16;
Wheeler, 1922
: 72;
Joma & Mackay, 2013
: 3;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 76.
Status as species:
Mayr, 1862
: 717;
Roger, 1863b
: 16;
Mayr, 1863a
: 397;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 36;
Forel, 1901k
: 344;
Stitz, 1910
: 130;
Forel, 1910e
: 4;
Emery, 1911e
: 76;
Santschi, 1914e
: 4;
Arnold, 1915
: 62 (redescription);
Wheeler, 1922
: 72 (in key), 771;
Arnold, 1952a
: 461 (in key);
Bolton, 1995b
: 308;
Joma & Mackay, 2015
: 556 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Ponera pumicosa
Citations
Arnold, G.
1915.
A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae.
Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159.
PDF
Arnold, G.
1952a.
New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10.
Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493.
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.
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
Forel, A.
1901k.
Nouvelles espèces de Ponerinae. (Avec un nouveau sous-genre et une espèce nouvelle d'
Eciton
).
Revue Suisse de Zoologie 9:325-353.
PDF
Forel, A.
1910e.
Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae.
Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30.
PDF
Joma, A. M. A.
;
Mackay, W. P.
2013.
A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus
Bothroponera
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae).
Psyche 2013 Article ID 917847:8 pp.
10.1155/2013/917847
PDF
Joma, A. M. A.
;
Mackay, W. P.
2015.
Revision of the African ants of the
Bothroponera pumicosa
species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae).
Sociobiology 62:538-563.
10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845
PDF
Mayr, G.
1862.
Myrmecologische Studien.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Raffray, A.
1887.
Pselaphides nouveaux ou peu connus. [part].
Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 6:18-36.
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
Santschi, F.
1914e.
Meddelanden från Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Afdelning. 3. Fourmis du Natal et du Zoulouland récoltées par le Dr. I. Trägårdh.
Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 15:1-44.
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
Stitz, H.
1910.
Westafrikanische Ameisen. I.
Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin 5:125-151.
PDF
Wheeler, G. C.
;
Wheeler, J.
1971c.
The larvae of the ant genus
Bothroponera
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 73:386-394.
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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