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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Plectroctena
›
Plectroctena laevior
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
). 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.
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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.
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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.
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valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
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