Protonym: Megaponera foetens var. rapax
Authorship Santschi, 1914b: 49
Forms w.
Bioregion Afrotropic
Locality TANZANIA
Primary type information Primary type material: >6 syntype workers (“numerous workers, major and minor”). Primary type localities: “numerous workers” Tanzania (“Afrique orientale allemande”): Mt Kilimanjaro, New Moschi, 800 m., st. no. 72, iv.1912 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 768; no lectotype designated); 3 workers Tanzania: Moschi, iii.1904 (no collector’s name, perhaps Ch. Alluaud), 2 workers Tanzania: Kiléma, 1400-1500 m., x.1908 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Type notes Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 133, cites 6 worker syntypes in NHMB.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Megaponera analis rapax Subspecies Valid
Megaponera foetens rapax Subspecies Obsolete combination
an obsolete combination of Megaponera analis rapax Santschi, 1914
Original combination