Plagiolepis puncta

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Plagiolepis puncta Forel, 1910 valid

Plagiolepis pygmaea var. punctum Forel, 1910f: 448 (w.m.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal (Wroughton) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1922: 930). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0909855. Type notes: Other original syntype locality: Lesotho (“Basutoland”): (no further data) (Wroughton).

Arnold, 1922: 602 (q.)
Combination in Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis): Wheeler, 1922: 930.
Subspecies of Plagiolepis pygmaea: Forel, 1914d: 248; Santschi, 1914e: 35; Forel, 1916: 437; Arnold, 1922: 602; Wheeler, 1922: 930.
Status as species: Emery, 1921d: 317; Emery, 1925d: 21; Bolton, 1995b: 336.

Obsolete combinations

Plagiolepis pygmaea puncta

Citations

Arnold, G. 1922. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part V. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:579-674. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1921d. Notes critiques de myrmécologie. [IX-X.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 61:313-319. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1910f. Note sur quelques fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 54:421-458. PDF
Forel, A. 1914d. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50:211-288. PDF
Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914e. Meddelanden från Göteborgs Musei Zoologiska Afdelning. 3. Fourmis du Natal et du Zoulouland récoltées par le Dr. I. Trägårdh. Göteborgs Kungliga Vetenskaps och Vitterhets Samhälles Handlingar 15:1-44.
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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