Myrmicaria fusca

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Myrmicaria fusca Stitz, 1911 valid

Myrmicaria eumenoides var. fusca Stitz, 1911b: 385 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: 2 syntype workers. Type-locality: Democratic Republic of Congo: Mboga, N of Ruwenzori (Schubotz). Type-depository: MNHU.

As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Santschi, 1914b: 116 (in key).
Subspecies of Myrmicaria natalensis eumenoides: Wheeler, 1922: 824.
Subspecies of Myrmicaria natalensis: Emery, 1922c: 123
Status as species: Santschi, 1925c: 166 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 285.

Obsolete combinations

Myrmicaria eumenoides fusca

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

M. f. consanguinea Santschi, 1925
M. f. nigerrima Arnold, 1916

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. 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
Santschi, F. 1925c ("1924"). Révision des Myrmicaria d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 64:133-176. PDF
Stitz, H. 1911b. Formicidae. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 3:375-392.
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 2 valid subspecies

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