Carebara alluaudi - AntCat

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Carebara alluaudi (Santschi, 1913) valid

Oligomyrmex alluaudi Santschi, 1913e: 459, 460 (diagnosis in key) (s.w.) KENYA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype major workers, 9 syntype minor workers. Primary type localities: 2 major workers, 5 minor workers Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Shimoni, st. no. 9, xi.1911 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 881; no lectotype designated), 4 minor workers Kenya: Kijabé, Kikuyu Escarpment, 2100 m., st. no. 27. xii.1911 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Type locality data from Santschi, 1914b: 81; Santschi, 1913e: 459, mistakenly gives “Kilimanjaro”.

[Also described as new by Santschi, 1914b: 81 (s.w. descriptions).]
Combination in Oligomyrmex (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924f: 217;
Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235
Status as species: Santschi, 1914b: 81; Wheeler, 1922: 881; Emery, 1924f: 217; Weber, 1950a: 3; Ettershank, 1966: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 298; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 208.
Senior synonym of Carebara kenyensis (unnecessary replacement name): Bolton, 1995b: 298

Junior synonyms

Carebara kenyensis (Ettershank, 1966)
Obsolete combination(s): Oligomyrmex kenyensis

Obsolete combinations

Oligomyrmex alluaudi

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

C. a. cataractae (Santschi, 1919)

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. 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
Santschi, F. 1913e. Clé dichotomique des Oligomyrmex africains (Hym. Formicidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1913:459-460. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914b. Voyage de Ch. Alluaud et R. Jeannel en Afrique Orientale, 1911-1912. Résultats scientifiques. Insectes Hyménoptères. II. Formicidae. Paris: Libr. A. Schulz, pp. 41-148. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1950a. The African species of the genus Oligomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum Novitates 1442:1-19. 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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