Hypoponera muscicola

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Hypoponera muscicola (Weber, 1942) junior synonym of current valid taxon Hypoponera dulcis (Forel, 1907)

Ponera muscicola Weber, 1942b: 45, fig. 13 (q.) SOUTH SUDAN. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): Imatong Mts, 25.vii.1939, 7200 ft, no. 1313, in wet moss in cavity of a tree (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: unknown (not in MCZC, presumed lost (Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 43)).

Combination in Hypoponera: Bolton, 1995b: 215
Status as species: Weber, 1943d: 300; Bernard, 1953b: 199 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 215.
Junior synonym of Hypoponera dulcis: Bolton & Fisher, 2011: 43

Obsolete combinations

Ponera muscicola

Citations

Bernard, F. 1953b ("1952"). La réserve naturelle intégrale du Mt Nimba. XI. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 19:165-270. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2011. Taxonomy of Afrotropical and West Palaearctic ants of the ponerine genus Hypoponera Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2843:1-118. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1942b. New doryline, cerapachyine and ponerine ants from the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 44:40-49. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1943d. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389. PDF

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