Protonym: Aneleus politus
Authorship Santschi, 1914b: 79, fig. 8
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality KENYA
Primary type information Primary type material: 3 syntype minor workers. Primary type locality: Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Blue Post Hotel, Kikuyu territory, 1520 m., st. no. 29, i.1912 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Aneleus politus Species Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Carebara polita (Santschi, 1914)
Original combination
Carebara polita Species Homonym
homonym replaced by Carebara xynera Fisher, 2025