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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
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Formicidae
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Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Bothroponera
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Bothroponera talpa
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Bothroponera
talpa
André, 1890
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Bothroponera talpa
André, 1890
: 316 (w.) SIERRA LEONE. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Sierra Leone: (no further data) (
A. Mocquerys
). Type-depository:
MNHN
.
Emery, 1899d
: 473 (q.);
Santschi, 1914d
: 314 (q.).
Combination in
Pachycondyla (Bothroponera)
:
Emery, 1901b
: 45.
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 310.
Combination in
Bothroponera
:
Wheeler, 1922
: 72;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 76.
Status as species:
Dalla Torre, 1893
: 37;
Emery, 1899d
: 473;
Santschi, 1914d
: 314;
Wheeler, 1922
: 73, 773;
Bolton, 1975b
: 6;
Bolton, 1995b
: 310;
Hita Garcia
et al.
, 2013
: 221;
Joma & Mackay, 2020
: 383 (redescription).
Senior synonym of
Bothroponera clavicornis
:
Bolton, 1975b
: 6;
Bolton, 1995b
: 310;
Joma & Mackay, 2020
: 383.
Junior synonyms
Bothroponera clavicornis
(Bernard, 1953)
Obsolete combination(s):
Pachycondyla clavicornis
,
Psalidomyrmex clavicornis
Obsolete combinations
Pachycondyla talpa
Current subspecies (nominal plus)
B. t. variolata
(Santschi, 1912)
Citations
André, Ern.
1890.
Matériaux pour servir à la faune myrmécologique de Sierra-Leone (Afrique occidentale).
Revue d'Entomologie (Caen) 9:311-327.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1975b.
A revision of the African ponerine ant genus
Psalidomyrmex
André (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 32:1-16.
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.
PDF
Emery, C.
1899d.
Fourmis d'Afrique.
Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43:459-504.
PDF
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
Hita Garcia, F.
;
Wiesel, E.
;
Fischer, G.
2013.
The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography.
Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222.
PDF
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.
1914d.
Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri.
Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385.
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.
Extant: 1 valid subspecies
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