Aphomomyrmex afer

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Aphomomyrmex afer Emery, 1899 valid

Aphomomyrmex afer Emery, 1899d: 494, fig. (w.q.m.) CAMEROON. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 1 syntype queen, 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: Cameroon: (no further data) (L. Conradt). Primary type depository: MSNG. Type notes: Emery, 1899d: 496, excluded the workers from the type series, saying, “I consider the queen and the male as type of the species and genus, in case the worker could be something separate”.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986d: 332 (l.)
Status as species: Forel, 1910f: 449; Forel, 1910e: 25; Wheeler, 1910f: 132; Wheeler, 1922: 940; Emery, 1925d: 45; Snelling, 1979b: 4; Bolton, 1995b: 74.
Senior synonym of Aphomomyrmex muralti: Snelling, 1979b: 4 (in text); Bolton, 1995b: 74.

Junior synonyms

Aphomomyrmex muralti Forel, 1910

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1899d. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43:459-504. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1910e. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika ausgeführt in den Jahren 1903-1905 von Dr. Leonhard Schultze. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. D) Formicidae. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16:1-30. PDF
Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
Snelling, R. R. 1979b. Aphomomyrmex and a related new genus of arboreal African ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 316:1-8. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1986d. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 94:331-341. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1910f. A new species of Aphomomyrmex from Borneo. Psyche (Cambridge) 17:131-135. 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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