Parasyscia wittmeri

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Parasyscia wittmeri (Collingwood, 1985) valid

Cerapachys wittmeri Collingwood, 1985: 237, fig. 8 (w.) SAUDI ARABIA. Palearctic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Saudi Arabia: Al Kola, semi cultivated area, 10.iv.1983 (C.A. Collingwood). Type-depository: WMLC. Type-specimen: CASENT0922314. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 11 paratype workers. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Type notes: In the original description, Collingwood states that type-material is in BMNH and NHMB; however, the only known type-material is in WMLC.

Combination in Parasyscia: Borowiec, 2016: 205
Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 145; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 312; Borowiec, 2014: 62; Sharaf et al., 2018: 219 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Cerapachys wittmeri

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borowiec, L. 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus (Wroclaw) 25 (1-2):1-340. PDF
Borowiec, M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608:1-280. 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF
Collingwood, C. A. 1985. Hymenoptera: Fam. Formicidae of Saudi Arabia. Fauna of Saudi Arabia 7:230-302. PDF
Collingwood, C. A.; Agosti, D. 1996. Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Saudi Arabia (part 2). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 15:300-385. PDF
Sharaf, M. R.; Akbar, S. A.; Aldawood, A. S. 2018. Review of the Arabian rare ant genus Parasyscia Emery, 1882 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with description of a new species from the Asir Mountains, Saudi Arabia. African Entomology 26 (1):215-223. 10.4001/003.026.0215 PDF

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