Tetraponera schulthessi

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Tetraponera schulthessi (Santschi, 1915) valid

Sima schulthessi Santschi, 1915c: 249 (q.) MOZAMBIQUE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype (?) queen. Primary type locality: Mozambique: Delagoa, Rikatle (von Schulthess). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0915539. Type notes: 1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Ward, 2022: 59, cites only a single alate queen syntype.

Santschi, 1928d: 58 (w.)
Combination in Sima (Sima): Emery, 1921c: 24.
Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922j: 800
Status as species: Emery, 1921c: 24; Wheeler, 1922: 800; Santschi, 1928d: 58; Bolton, 1995b: 419; Ward, 2022: 59 (diagnosis).

Obsolete combinations

Sima schulthessi

Citations

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
Santschi, F. 1915c. Nouvelles fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 84:244-282. PDF
Santschi, F. 1928d. Descriptions de nouvelles fourmis éthiopiennes (quatrième note). Revue de Zoologie et de Botanique Africaines 16:54-69. 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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