Tetraponera ambigua rhodesiana

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Tetraponera ambigua rhodesiana (Forel, 1913) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera ambigua (Emery, 1895)

Sima ambigua r. rhodesiana Forel, 1913a: 112 (w.) ZIMBABWE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Zimbabwe (“S Rhodesia”): Plumtree (G. Arnold). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907469. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Ward, 2006: 123, cites only 1 worker syntype.

Arnold, 1914: 31 (s.w.); Arnold, 1916: 187 (q.)
Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Arnold, 1916: 186; Emery, 1921c: 27.
Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922: 796.
Subspecies of Tetraponera ambigua: Arnold, 1914: 31; Arnold, 1916: 186; Emery, 1921c: 27; Wheeler, 1922: 796; Bolton, 1995b: 419.
Junior synonym of Tetraponera ambigua: Ward, 2006: 123

Obsolete combinations

Sima ambigua rhodesiana

Citations

Arnold, G. 1914. Nest-changing migrations of two species of ants. Proceedings and Transactions of the Rhodesia Scientific Association 13:25-32. PDF
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. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Forel, A. 1913a. Fourmis de Rhodesia, etc. récoltées par M. G. Arnold, le Dr. H. Brauns et K. Fikendey. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:108-147. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2006. The ant genus Tetraponera in the Afrotropical region: synopsis of species groups and revision of the T. ambigua-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:119-130. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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