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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Ponerinae
›
Ponerini
›
Bothroponera
›
Bothroponera montivaga
Bothroponera
montivaga
Arnold, 1947
valid
Bothroponera cavernosa var. montivaga
Arnold, 1947
: 132 (in text) (w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of
Joma & Mackay, 2015
: 555). Type-locality: lectotype South Africa: Cape Peninsula, Steenberg Mts (no collector’s name). Type-depository:
SAMC
.
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 1 paralectotype worker. Paratype-locality: same as for lectotype. Paratype-depository:
SAMC
.
Combination in
Pachycondyla
:
Brown, 1995a
: 307.
Combination in
Bothroponera
:
Joma & Mackay, 2013
: 3;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014
: 76.
Subspecies of
Bothroponera pumicosa
:
Arnold, 1952a
: 462 (in key).
Subspecies of
Bothroponera cavernosa
:
Bolton, 1995b
: 307.
Status as species:
Joma & Mackay, 2015
: 554 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Bothroponera cavernosa montivaga
Pachycondyla cavernosa montivaga
Citations
Arnold, G.
1947.
New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 7.
Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:131-167.
PDF
Arnold, G.
1952a.
New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 10.
Occasional Papers of the National Museum of Southern Rhodesia 2:460-493.
PDF
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.
1995a.
[Untitled. Taxonomic changes in
Pachycondyla
and
Neoponera
attributed to Brown.].
Pp. 302-311 in:
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Joma, A. M. A.
;
Mackay, W. P.
2013.
A new species of Afrotropical ants in the genus
Bothroponera
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae).
Psyche 2013 Article ID 917847:8 pp.
10.1155/2013/917847
PDF
Joma, A. M. A.
;
Mackay, W. P.
2015.
Revision of the African ants of the
Bothroponera pumicosa
species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae).
Sociobiology 62:538-563.
10.13102/sociobiology.v62i4.845
PDF
Schmidt, C. A.
;
Shattuck, S. O.
2014.
The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior.
Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242.
10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1
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