Megaponera analis rapax

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Megaponera analis rapax Santschi, 1914 valid

Megaponera foetens var. rapax Santschi, 1914b: 49 (w.) TANZANIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: >6 syntype workers (“numerous workers, major and minor”). Primary type localities: “numerous workers” Tanzania (“Afrique orientale allemande”): Mt Kilimanjaro, New Moschi, 800 m., st. no. 72, iv.1912 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel) (invalid restriction of type locality by Wheeler, 1922: 768; no lectotype designated); 3 workers Tanzania: Moschi, iii.1904 (no collector’s name, perhaps Ch. Alluaud), 2 workers Tanzania: Kiléma, 1400-1500 m., x.1908 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 133, cites 6 worker syntypes in NHMB.

Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 308.
Combination in Megaponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 107.
Subspecies of Megaponera foetens: Wheeler, 1922: 768; Santschi, 1923e: 263; Santschi, 1930b: 59 (in key).
Subspecies of Megaponera analis: Bolton, 1995b: 308

Obsolete combinations

Megaponera foetens rapax

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. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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. 1923e. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295. PDF
Santschi, F. 1930b. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola, 1928-1929. Formicides de l'Angola. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 37:53-81. PDF
Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 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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