Plectroctena laevior

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

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Plectroctena laevior Stitz, 1924 valid

Plectroctena mandibularis st. laevior Stitz, 1924: 162 (footnote), 163, fig. 1d (w.) TANZANIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Tanzania (“Afrique orientale allemande”): Kiwugebiet (Kadt) (sent by Stitz). Primary type depository: ZMHB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0104648.

Status as species: Bolton, 1974c: 329 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 338; Bolton & Brown, 2002: 13.

Obsolete combinations

Plectroctena mandibularis laevior

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
Stitz, M. H. 1924. [Untitled. Plectroctena laevior sp. nov., Plectroctena striativentris sp. nov.]. Pp. 162-163, 173 in: Santschi, F. 1924a. Revue du genre Plectroctena F. Smith. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31:155-173. PDF

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