Tetraponera mocquerysi lutea

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

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Tetraponera mocquerysi lutea (Stitz, 1911) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera natalensis (Smith, 1858)

Sima mocquerysi var. lutea Stitz, 1911b: 381, fig. 3 (w.q.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 2 syntype workers, 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of Congo: Lake Kivu, Kwidschwi I. (A. Friedrichs). Primary type depository: MNHU. Primary type specimens: FOCOL1158, FOCOL1160.

Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922j: 798
Subspecies of Tetraponera mocquerysi: Emery, 1921c: 24; Wheeler, 1922: 798; Bolton, 1995b: 418.
Junior synonym of Tetraponera natalensis: Ward, 2022: 54.

Obsolete combinations

Sima mocquerysi lutea

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
Stitz, H. 1911b. Formicidae. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 3:375-392.
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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