Plectroctena anops

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

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Plectroctena anops Bolton, 1974 valid

Plectroctena anops Bolton, 1974c: 319, figs. 4, 7 (w.) GHANA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana: Tafo (= New Tafo, Eastern Region, Akim District, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana), 8.ix.1966, ant ecology sample 249c (D. Leston). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0102918.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 337; Bolton & Brown, 2002: 12.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1974c. A revision of the ponerine ant genus Plectroctena F. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 30:309-338. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 2002. Loboponera gen. n. and a review of the Afrotropical Plectroctena genus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology Series 71:1-18. PDF

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