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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Bothroponera
›
Bothroponera cavernosa
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Bothroponera
cavernosa
(Roger, 1860)
valid
Ponera cavernosa
Roger, 1860
: 288 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: South Africa (“Africa im Kaffernlande”): (no further data) (
Drège
). Type-depository:
MNHU
.
Combination in
Pachycondyla (Bothroponera)
:
Emery, 1901b
: 45.
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 304.
Combination in
Bothroponera
:
Mayr, 1862
: 717;
Roger, 1863b
: 16;
Wheeler, 1922
: 72;
Joma & Mackay, 2013
: 3;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 76.
Status as species:
Roger, 1863b
: 16;
Mayr, 1863a
: 397;
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 36;
Emery, 1911e
: 76;
Arnold, 1915
: 60;
Wheeler, 1922
: 72 (in key), 769;
Arnold, 1947
: 132;
Arnold, 1952a
: 461 (in key);
Bolton, 1995b
: 303;
Joma & Mackay, 2015
: 549 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Pachycondyla cavernosa
Ponera cavernosa
Citations
Arnold, G.
1915.
A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae.
Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159.
PDF
Arnold, G.
1947.
New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 7.
Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:131-167.
PDF
Arnold, G.
1952a.
New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10.
Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1995a.
[Untitled. Taxonomic changes in
Pachycondyla
and
Neoponera
attributed to Brown.].
Pp. 302-311 in:
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W.
1893.
Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna).
Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp.
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Emery, C.
1901b.
Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides).
Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54.
PDF
Emery, C.
1911e.
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae.
Genera Insectorum 118:1-125.
PDF
Joma, A. M. A.
;
Mackay, W. P.
2013.
A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus
Bothroponera
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae).
Psyche 2013 Article ID 917847:8 pp.
10.1155/2013/917847
PDF
Joma, A. M. A.
;
Mackay, W. P.
2015.
Revision of the African ants of the
Bothroponera pumicosa
species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae).
Sociobiology 62:538-563.
10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845
PDF
Mayr, G.
1862.
Myrmecologische Studien.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776.
PDF
Mayr, G.
1863a.
Formicidarum index synonymicus.
Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
PDF
Roger, J.
1860.
Die
Ponera
-artigen Ameisen.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 4:278-312.
PDF
Roger, J.
1863b.
Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten.
Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65.
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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