Strumigenys roomi
(Bolton, 1972)
valid
Epitritus roomi
Bolton, 1972:
206, figs. 3, 4 (w.q.)
GHANA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ghana: Eastern Region, Akwapim District, Mampong, 10.iv.1970, litter sample in cocoa farm (P.M. Room). Primary type depository: BMNH.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paratype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: BMNH.
- Combination in Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1672.
- Combination in Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 127.
- Status as species: Bolton, 1983: 356 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 188; Bolton, 2000: 291 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 2007. The ant tribe Dacetini: limits and constituent genera, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 99:1-191. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1972. Two new species of the ant genus Epitritus from Ghana, with a key to the world species (Hym., Formicidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 107:205-208. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1983. The Afrotropical dacetine ants (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 46:267-416. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 33:1639-1689. PDF
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.