Lioponera decorsei

Lioponera decorsei Santschi, 1912 valid

Lioponera decorsei Santschi, 1912b: 150 (m.) CHAD. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype male. Primary type locality: Chad: southern Darbanda (Kébédjé, Mission Charri Tchad) (Decorse). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911257. Type notes: Santschi, 1912b: 150, implies that the holotype is in MNHN; however, Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 124, reports the specimen is in NHMB.

Combination in Cerapachys: Brown, 1975: 22
Combination in Lioponera: Borowiec, 2016: 163
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 757; Donisthorpe, 1939a: 254; Brown, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 142.

Obsolete combinations

Cerapachys decorsei

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608:1-280. 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1939a. The genus Lioponera Mayr (Formicidae, Cerapachyinae), with descriptions of two new species and an ergatandromorph. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)3:252-257. PDF
Santschi, F. 1912b. Fourmis d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:150-167. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.