Sima aethiops
(Smith, 1877)
an obsolete combination of Tetraponera aethiops Smith, 1877
Tetraponera aethiops
Smith, 1877b:
71 (w.)
SOUTH AFRICA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: South Africa: (no further data). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902813.
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Ward, 2022: 62, points out that the locality is probably in error.
Citations
- Smith, F. 1877b. Descriptions of new species of the genera Pseudomyrma and Tetraponera, belonging to the family Myrmicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877:57-72. 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
Extant: 0 valid subspecies (2 obsolete combinations)
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae
- All taxa
- Subgenera
- Without subgenus
- No valid child taxa
- show invalid
- No valid child taxa
- show invalid