Ocymyrmex foreli

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Ocymyrmex foreli Arnold, 1916 valid

Ocymyrmex weitzeckeri var. foreli Arnold, 1916: 197 (w.) ZIMBABWE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Zimbabwe (“Southern Rhodesia”): Redbank, 7.iv.1912 (G. Arnold) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 893; no lectotype designated), Zimbabwe (“Southern Rhodesia”): Victoria Falls (G. Arnold). Primary type depositories: BMNH, SAMC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0900404.

Bolton, 1981b: 261 (eq.); Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1279 (m.)
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Emery, 1924f: 271.
Subpecies of Ocymyrmex weitzeckeri: Wheeler, 1922: 893.
Status as species: Bolton, 1981b: 269 (redescription); Bolton & Marsh, 1989: 1295; Forder & Marsh, 1989: 106; Bolton, 1995b: 294.

Obsolete combinations

Ocymyrmex weitzeckeri foreli

Citations

Arnold, G. 1916. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part II. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:159-270. PDF
Bolton, B. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 43:245-307. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.; Marsh, A. C. 1989. The Afrotropical thermophilic ant genus Ocymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 23:1267-1308. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Forder, J. C.; Marsh, A. C. 1989. Social organization and reproduction in Ocymyrmex foreli (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Insectes Sociaux 36:106-115.
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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