Bothroponera sculpturata

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Bothroponera sculpturata (Santschi, 1912) valid

Pachycondyla (Bothroponera) sculpturata Santschi, 1912b: 151 (q.) MOZAMBIQUE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype queens. Primary type localities: 1 queen with no state data (probably Zimbabwe): Zambezi (F. Demarchi) (invalid restriction of type-locality by Wheeler, 1922: 772; no lectotype designated), 1 queen Mozambique: Prov. de Gorongoza, Tendo du Sungoué, 40 m., 1907 (G. Vasse). Primary type depositories: MNHN, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0922360. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 134, cites 1 queen syntype in NHMB (as ‘holotype’).

Combination in Bothroponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 76
Subspecies of Bothroponera pumicosa: Wheeler, 1922: 772; Bolton, 1995b: 309.
Status as species: Joma & Mackay, 2020: 379 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Bothroponera mlanjiensis: Joma & Mackay, 2020: 379.

Junior synonyms

Bothroponera mlanjiensis Arnold, 1946
Obsolete combination(s): Pachycondyla mlanjiensis

Obsolete combinations

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.
Joma, A. M. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2020. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera talpa species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 146 (2):355-408. 10.3157/061.146.0206 PDF
Santschi, F. 1912b. Fourmis d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:150-167. PDF
Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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