Mystrium silvestrii

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Mystrium silvestrii Santschi, 1914 valid

Mystrium silvestrii Santschi, 1914d: 310, fig. 1 (w.q.) CAMEROON. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Cameroon: Victoria (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 126, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB; presumably the other syntypes are in DEUN.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 758; Menozzi, 1929e: 534 (redescription); Brown, 1960a: 170; Bolton, 1995b: 287.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1960a. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122:143-230. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1929e. Revisione delle formiche del genere Mystrium Roger. Zoologischer Anzeiger 82:518-536. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. 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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