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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
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Formicidae
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Formicinae
›
Plagiolepidini
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Lepisiota
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Lepisiota megacephala
Lepisiota
megacephala
(Weber, 1943)
valid
Acantholepis megacephala
Weber, 1943d
: 384, pl. 16, fig. 23 (w.) SOUTH SUDAN. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: South Sudan (“Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”): Equatoria, Azza Forest, 15.iii.1939, no. 10662 (
J.G. Myers
). Primary type depository:
MCZC
.
Combination in
Lepisiota
:
Bolton, 1995b
: 228.
Status as species:
Bolton, 1995b
: 228.
Obsolete combinations
Acantholepis megacephala
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Weber, N. A.
1943d.
The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93:263-389.
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