Tetraponera braunsi durbanensis

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

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Tetraponera braunsi durbanensis (Forel, 1914) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera emeryi (Forel, 1911)

Sima braunsi var. durbanensis Forel, 1914d: 218 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: South Africa: Natal, Durban (G. Arnold). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907471. Type notes: No indication of number of specimens is given.

Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922j: 797
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Arnold, 1916: 184; Emery, 1921c: 27; Wheeler, 1922: 797
Subspecies of Tetraponera braunsi: Bolton, 1995b: 417
Junior synonym of Tetraponera emeryi: Ward, 2022: 30.

Obsolete combinations

Sima braunsi durbanensis

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. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. 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
Ward, P. S. 2022. The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species. Zootaxa 5102 (1):1-70. 10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
Wheeler, W. M. 1922j. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45:711-1004. PDF

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