Tetraponera poultoni

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

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Tetraponera poultoni Donisthorpe, 1931 junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera anthracina (Santschi, 1910)

Tetraponera poultoni Donisthorpe, 1931d: 497 (w.) UGANDA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Uganda: (no further data), “ejected from an ant-lion’s pit”, 10.x.1928 (J.E.M. Mellor). Primary type depository: OXUM.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 419.
Junior synonym of Tetraponera anthracina: Ward, 2022: 47.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Donisthorpe, H. 1931d. Descriptions of some new species of ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10)8:494-501. 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

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