Parasyscia pigra

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

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Parasyscia pigra (Weber, 1942) junior synonym of current valid taxon Parasyscia lamborni (Crawley, 1923)

Cerapachys (Cerapachys) pigra Weber, 1942b: 41, fig. 11 (w.) SOUTH SUDAN. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “one colony”). Primary type locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): Imatong Mts, ca 3800 ft, 31.vii.1939, no. 1374 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: MCZC (perhaps also AMNH).

Status as species: Weber, 1943d: 293.
Junior synonym of Parasyscia lamborni: Brown, 1975: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 144.

Obsolete combinations

Cerapachys pigra

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Weber, N. A. 1942b. New doryline, cerapachyine and ponerine ants from the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 44:40-49. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389. PDF

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