Carebara elmenteitae
(Patrizi, 1948)
valid
Solenopsis (Crateropsis) elmenteitae
Patrizi, 1948:
176, figs. 1, 2 (s.)
KENYA.
Afrotropic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: holotype phragmotic major worker. Type-locality: Kenya: (Lake) Elmenteita, 20.xii.1945 (S. Patrizi). Type-depository: IEUB.
Type notes:
Patrizi, 1948: 176, states that the holotype is a queen (“femmina”), adding “maschio ed operaia ignoti”. The specimen described is actually a phragmotic major worker.
- Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 123.
- Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
- Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 299; Hita Garcia et al., 2013: 208; Fischer, et al. 2015: 93 (redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
- Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26:191-238. PDF
- Hita Garcia, F.; Wiesel, E.; Fischer, G. 2013. The ants of Kenya (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)—faunal overview, first species checklist, bibliography, accounts for all genera, and discussion on taxonomy and zoogeography. Journal of East African Natural History 101 (2):127-222. PDF
- Patrizi, S. 1948. Contribuzioni alla conoscenza delle formiche e dei mirmecofili dell'Africa orientale. VI. Crateropsis elmenteitae nuovo sottogenere aberrante di Solenopsis Westw. (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Bollettino dell'Istituto di Entomologia della Università degli Studi di Bologna 17:174-176. PDF
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valid
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unavailable/nomen nudum
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