Proceratium toschii

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Proceratium toschii (Consani, 1951) valid

Sysphincta toschii Consani, 1951: 167, fig. 1 (q.) KENYA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Kenya: Nairobi, ix.1945 (S. Patrizi). Type-depository: EZGT. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 282, point out that the holotype is a “sub-ergatoid gyne”, not a worker. 2) In the publication the holotype is said to be in IEUB, but Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 282, located it in EZGT.

Combination in Proceratium: Brown, 1958g: 248
Status as species: Terron, 1981: 102 (in key); Brown, 1958g: 248, 339; Bolton, 1995b: 367; Baroni Urbani & de Andrade, 2003a: 282 (redescription); Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 222.

Obsolete combinations

Sysphincta toschii

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C.; de Andrade, M. L. 2003a. The ant genus Proceratium in the extant and fossil record (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Monografie (Turin) 36:1-492. 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. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118:173-362. PDF
Consani, M. 1951. Formiche dell'Africa Orientale I. Bollettino dell'Istituto di Entomologia della Università degli Studi di Bologna 18:167-172. PDF
Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
Terron, G. 1981. Deux nouvelles espèces éthiopiennes pour le genre Proceratium (Hym.: Formicidae). Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Yaoundé 28:95-103. PDF

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