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ID	Pos.	Item type	Protonym / Terminal taxa	Rank	Status	Taxt
#282505	1	taxt	Sphaeromessor Sphaeromessor	genus	unavailable	[Unavailable name (proposed without designation of type-species). Taxa included by Bernard, 1985, are all referable to Messor (Bolton, 1995b: 46).]
#282531	5	taxt	Formica quadrinotata Formica quadrinotata	species	unidentifiable	[Note: Mayr, 1855: 389 (footnote), Roger, 1860: 287, Mayr, 1861: 55, and André, 1874b: 187, all suggest a combination in Ponera. Emery, 1916a: 105 (footnote), suspected that Formica quadrinotata was synonymous with Cryptopone ochracea, but the description is not convincing. Losana, 1834's original description is reproduced by André, 1882d: 239 (footnote).]
#282674	3	taxt	Formica transkaucasica Formica transkaucasica	species	unidentifiable	[Note: Nasonov, 1889's original description in Russian is translated into German by Emery, 1893k: 662 (footnote), and into English by Yarrow, 1954a: 234.]
#283031	6	taxt	Formica carinata Polyrhachis carinata	species	valid	[Note: Polyrhachis carinata Fabricius, 1804, sensu Smith, 1858a: 71, pl. 4, figs. 48, 49 (w.) South Africa, is a misidentification of Polyrhachis carinata Fabricius, 1804, not a separate taxon. Mayr, 1863a: 444 treated Polyrhachis carinatus Smith, 1858a as a valid species, which led later authors (Bolton, 1973b: 318; Bolton, 1995b: 356; Dorow, 1995: 39) to mistakenly regard it as a junior homonym of Polyrhachis carinata Fabricius, 1804. Smith, 1858a himself (p. 71, in text) said of his African material, “This insect is very probably the worker of Polyrhachis militaris,” an opinion repeated by Roger, 1863b: 6. Otherwise, Dalla Torre, 1893: 260, referred the African material to Polyrhachis cafrorum Forel, 1879a, while Emery, 1896j: 379; Wheeler, 1922a: 261; Emery, 1925d: 200, referred it to Polyrhachis rugulosa Mayr, 1862. Bolton, 1973b: 318, and later authors, referred it to Polyrhachis schistacea Gerstäcker, 1859.]
#289414	6	taxt	Physatta natalensis Myrmicaria natalensis	species	valid	[Note: Mayr, 1866b; Gerstäcker, 1871; Emery, 1893g; Wheeler, 1922; Emery, 1922c all give Myrmicaria natalensis eumenoides as senior synonym, but Myrmicaria natalensis has priority.]
#290168	8	taxt	Camponotus sylvaticus var. dichrous Camponotus dichrous	species	synonym	[Note: the entries in Bingham, 1903, and in Karmaly & Narendran, 2006, from India, are probably misidentifications.]
#290229	6	taxt	Camponotus (Camponotus) japonicus var. manczshuricus Camponotus japonicus manczshuricus	subspecies	synonym	[Note: Emery, 1925d and Ruzsky, 1925b have the same date of publication (31.xii.1925), but as the name appears in unavailable form in Ruzsky, 1925b, priority belongs to Emery, 1925d.]
#290436	2	taxt	Dinoponera quadriceps Dinoponera quadriceps	species	valid	Borgmeier, 1937b: 227 (m.); Dias & Lattke, 2021 54 (m.)
#290890	3	taxt	Formica longipes Pheidole longipes	species	valid	[Note: this taxon was omitted from Wilson, 2003a.]
#291020	3	taxt	Polyrhachis (Evelyna) cheesmanae Polyrhachis cheesmanae	species	valid	[Note: Dorow, 1995: 62, has confused Donisthorpe, 1937e’s two Polyrhachis cheesmanae names.]
#291105	5	taxt	Myrmica rufitarsis Messor rufitarsis	species	synonym	[Note: Nezhad et al., 2012, perhaps confuse Messor rufitarsis Foerster, 1850b with Messor rufitarsis Fabricius, 1804; or more probably a misidentification.]
#292290	9	taxt	Labidus halidaii Neivamyrmex halidaii	species	valid	[Note: Neivamyrmex enzmanni is a replacement name for Neivamyrmex mexicana Enzmann, 1952, but proposed subsequent to Snelling & Snelling, 2007; hence an automatic junior synonym].
#292988	6	taxt	Heptacondylus eumenoides Myrmicaria natalensis eumenoides	subspecies	valid	[Note: Mayr, 1866b; Gerstäcker, 1871; Emery, 1893g; Wheeler, 1922; Emery, 1922c all give Myrmicaria natalensis eumenoides as senior synonym, but Myrmicaria natalensis has priority.]
#293003	6	taxt	Crematogaster castaneus Crematogaster castanea	species	valid	[Note: Mayr, 1907b gives Crematogaster tricolor as senior synonym, but Crematogaster castanea has priority.]
#293989	3	taxt	Pogonomyrmex sanctihyacinthi Pogonomyrmex sanctihyacinthi	species	synonym	[Note: the names Pogonomyrmex apache and Pogonomyrmex sanctihyacinthi both had their origin in Wheeler, 1902d. Cole, 1954e: 267 (footnote), selected Pogonomyrmex apache as the senior name, on first reviser principle.]
#294871	7	taxt	Ponera apicalis Ectomomyrmex apicalis	species	valid	[Note: apparently purely by chance, Özdikmen, 2010c chose the same replacement name that Smith, 1871a had chosen almost 140 years earlier.]
#297043	4	taxt	Crematogaster inops Crematogaster inops	species	synonym	[Note: seniority of dates of publication for Forel, 1892l and Forel, 1892o are equivocal. Forel, 1892l is after 3.xii.1892 (its séance date), while Forel, 1892o is (31.xii).1893.]
#297611	5	taxt	Leptothorax (Goniothorax) tristani Nesomyrmex tristani	species	synonym	[Note: Nesomyrmex tristani was treated at species rank by Fernández & Serna, 2019: 824, 825, but their key and list is based only on Kempf, 1959d. The Longino, 2006b publication that established the synonymy is not present in the bibliography of Fernández & Serna, 2019: 881-888. Therefore the apparent resurrection of Nesomyrmex tristani is regarded here as an error of omission.]
#299090	2	taxt	Atta (Mycocepurus) goeldii Mycocepurus goeldii	species	valid	[Note: there is some uncertainty concerning the publication dates of Forel, 1893h, and Forel, 1893j. Forel, 1893h has a “séance” date only, 2.xii.1893, which means that publication was some time after this. Forel, 1893j is accurately dated as 29.xii.1893 (obtained from Wheeler, 1912: 759). In view of the statement by Forel, 1893h: 603 that Mycocepurus would be “described soon in a work on the ants of St Vincent”, it is accepted here that the Forel, 1893h publication appeared first.]
#300013	1	taxt	Myrmica microgyna Myrmica microgyna	species	unavailable	Nomen nudum (attributed to Pearson, 1981).
#300486	3	taxt	Crematogaster menileki subsp. occidentalis Crematogaster menilekii occidentalis	subspecies	valid	Status as species: Taylor et al., 2018 9 (note: species has infrasubspecies so cannot be elevated in AntCat at present)
#305122	2	taxt	Pheidole wheelerorum Pheidole wheelerorum	species	valid	[Note: this species is omitted from Wilson, 2003a.]
#305696	1	taxt	Acantholepis (Pseudacantholepis) Acantholepis (Pseudacantholepis)	subgenus	unavailable	[Unavailable name (proposed without designation of type-species). Taxa included by Bernard, 1953b are referable to Lepisiota (Bolton, 1995b: 44).]
#305763	1	taxt	Anacantholepis Anacantholepis	genus	synonym	[Note: a problem in nomenclature. The genus-group name Anacantholepis first appears in Santschi, 1914b: 122 (date of publication 25.ii.1914), and includes two species, Plagiolepis jouberti and Plagiolepis pictipes. This publication almost certainly antedates Santschi, 1914e: 36 (date of publication (31.xii).1914, according to Bolton, 1995b: 481 and Ward et al., 1996: 319), where two different species are mentioned: Plagiolepis decora, and Plagiolepis vanderkelleni. It would appear that under ICZN Articles 12.2.5, 12.2.6, and 12.2.7 that Santschi, 1914b: 122, provides an indication which renders Anacantholepis available from that date. If so, the type-species should be either Plagiolepis jouberti or Plagiolepis pictipes. Note that Santschi, 1926a: 15, counts Santschi, 1914e as the initial record. This small nomenclatural tangle remains to be resolved.]
#306080	3	taxt	Cryptopone Cryptopone	genus	valid	[Note: it is apparent that Cryptopone testacea Motschoulsky, 1863 (based on a queen) and Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893a (based on workers) are not congeneric. Wilson, 1958g: 360, stated that Cryptopone testacea Motschoulsky, 1863 is, “almost certainly not the species described by Emery as Cryptopone testacea Emery, 1893a… it is proposed that Amblyopone testacea Motschoulsky, 1863 [Cryptopone testacea Motschoulsky, 1863] be left for the time being as a nomen dubium, and the description by Emery, 1893a be accepted as the original one for Cryptopone testacea”.]
#306457	1	taxt	Formica rubripes Camponotus rubripes	species	unavailable	[Note: Drury, 1770, contains no reference to ants, but was nevertheless cited by Forel, 1886h: 143, as the authority for the name Camponotus rubripes Drury, 1770. In reality, Drury, 1773: 72, described, but did not name, an ant species from Sierra Leone, which he considered to be the same as Messor barbarus Linnaeus, 1767 saying: “Vide Linn. Syst. p. 962, No. 2 Form. Barbara, which I judge to be the same as this”. This misidentified material was later named Camponotus rubripes Latreille, 1802a by Latreille, 1802a: 112. Emery, 1891c: 17, recognised the confusion caused by Roger, 1863b and Forel, 1886h, and explained: “Drury n’a jamais donné le nom de rubripes à aucune fourmis; c’est Latreille qui, le premier, appela Formica rubripes un gros Camponotus d’Afrique que Drury avait rapporté à tort au Formica barbara de Linné”.]
#306903	2	taxt	Dendromyrmex chartifex var. felis Camponotus chartifex felis	subspecies	synonym	[Note: Wheeler, 1916c cites Tukeit as type locality, whereas Mann, 1916 cites Tumatumari, without a collector’s name.]
#307617	1	taxt	Formica nigropratensis Formica nigropratensis	species	synonym	Unnecessary replacement name for Formica pratensis Retzius, 1783, sensu Yarrow, 1955a; Betrem, 1960b (Seifert, 2021: 161).
#308367	2	taxt	Camponotus varians raderatus Camponotus varians raderatus	subspecies	unavailable	[Note: McArthur, 2012 gives a diagnosis of Camponotus varians raderatus, which name he attributes to Menozzi, as “Camponotus spp. 4”, adding “Ballory, DT. May be a nomen nudum”. Depository is given as IEUB. This would appear to be merely a collection specimen labeled by Menozzi but never described by him.]
#308828	3	taxt	Lasius emarginatus Lasius emarginatus	species	unidentifiable	[Note: Lasius emarginatus Olivier, 1792 and Lasius emarginatus Fabricius, 1804 are considered to be different taxa because: (i) Fabricius, 1804 does not mention Olivier in his entry for Lasius emarginatus Fabricius, 1804 (or anywhere else in his 1804 (Fabricius, 1804) publication, whereas all other previous authors are acknowledged), (ii) Fabricius, 1804 adds the information “Dom. Smidt. Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt”, which is not present in Olivier, 1792; (iii) the type localities of the Olivier, 1792 and Fabricius, 1804 taxa are very different (France and South America); (iv) Olivier, 1792 describes w.q.m. whereas Fabricius, 1804 has only q.; (v) descriptions of the queens do not match; (vi) none of Olivier’s (Olivier, 1792) 11 new species are mentioned in Fabricius, 1804.]

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