Tetraponera natalensis obscurata

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

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Tetraponera natalensis obscurata (Emery, 1895) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera natalensis (Smith, 1858)

Sima natalensis subsp. obscurata Emery, 1895i: 22 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape of Good Hope (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0904031.

Arnold, 1916: 177 (q.m.)
Combination in Sima (Sima): Arnold, 1916: 177.
Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922j: 799
Subspecies of Tetraponera natalensis: Forel, 1910e: 5; Forel, 1911g: 274; Forel, 1915c: 336; Arnold, 1916: 177; Emery, 1921c: 24; Wheeler, 1922: 799; Bolton, 1995b: 419.
Junior synonym of Tetraponera natalensis: Ward, 2022: 54.

Obsolete combinations

Sima natalensis obscurata

Citations

Arnold, G. 1916. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part II. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:159-270. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1895i. Voyage de M. E. Simon dans l'Afrique australe (janvier-avril 1893). 3e mémoire. Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 64:15-56. PDF
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30. PDF
Forel, A. 1911g. Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303. PDF
Forel, A. 1915c. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. IIe partie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50:335-364. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2022. The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species. Zootaxa 5102 (1):1-70. 10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
Wheeler, W. M. 1922j. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45:711-1004. PDF

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