Lioponera eidmanni

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Lioponera eidmanni (Menozzi, 1942) junior synonym of current valid taxon Lioponera nkomoensis (Forel, 1916)

Phyracaces eidmanni Menozzi, 1942a: 165 (w.) EQUATORIAL GUINEA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Equatorial Guinea (“Spanish Guinea”): Fernando Po I. (= Bioko I.), Santa Isabel, i.1940 (H. Eidmann). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911261. Type notes: Type data from Eidmann, 1944: 429 (Westafrika Expd. Eidmann 1939-40).

[Also cited as new in Eidmann, 1944: 429.]
Junior synonym of Lioponera nkomoensis: Brown, 1975: 23; Bolton, 1995b: 143.

Obsolete combinations

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Eidmann, H. 1944. Die Ameisenfauna von Fernando Poo. 27. Beitrag zu den Ergebnissen der Westafrika-Expedition. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 76:413-490. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1942a. Formiche dell'isola Fernando Poo e del territorio del Rio Muni (Guinea Spagnola). 24. Beitrag zu den wissenschaftlichen Ergebnissen der Forschungsreise H. Eidmann nach Spanisch-Guinea 1939 bis 1940. Zoologischer Anzeiger 140:164-182. PDF

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