Megaponera analis termitivora

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

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Megaponera analis termitivora (Santschi, 1930) valid

Megaloponera foetens var. termitivora [sic] Santschi, 1930b: 60 (diagnosis in key) (w.) Note: Megaloponera is an unjustified emendation of spelling of Megaponera. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Democratic Republic of the Congo: Banana (no collector’s name), Democratic Republic of the Congo: Bas Congo, Moyamba (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 133, cites 3 worker syntypes in NHMB.

Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 310.
Combination in Megaponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
Subspecies of Megaponera foetens: Santschi, 1937d: 215.
Subspecies of Megaponera analis: Bolton, 1995b: 310.

Obsolete combinations

Megaponera foetens termitivora

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.
Santschi, F. 1930b. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola, 1928-1929. Formicides de l'Angola. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 37:53-81. PDF
Santschi, F. 1937d. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola (2me voyage) 1932-1933. Fourmis angolaises. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 44:211-250. 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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