Simopone grandis

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

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Simopone grandis Santschi, 1923 valid

Simopone grandis Santschi, 1923e: 259 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo Belge”): Kunungu, 2.iv.1921 (H. Schouteden). Primary type depositories: MRAC, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911267.

Status as species: Brown, 1975: 36, 79; Bolton, 1995b: 383; Bolton & Fisher, 2012: 26 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2012. Taxonomy of the cerapachyine ant genera Simopone Forel, Vicinopone gen. n. and Tanipone gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3283:1-101. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Santschi, F. 1923e. Descriptions de nouveaux Formicides éthiopiens et notes diverses. I. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 11:259-295. PDF

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