Carebara hewitti

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

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Carebara hewitti (Santschi, 1919) junior synonym of current valid taxon Carebara semilaevis (Mayr, 1901)

Oligomyrmex (Aeromyrma) hewitti Santschi, 1919a: 341, fig. 3 (s.w.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype major and minor workers (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Cape Prov., Grahamstown (Hewitt). Primary type depository: NHMB, NHMUK. Primary type specimens: CASENT0902381, CASENT0902382.

Combination in Aeromyrma: Wheeler, 1922: 882.
Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 123.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 882; Ettershank, 1966: 123 (error).
Junior synonym of Carebara semilaevis: Emery, 1924f: 216 (footnote); Arnold, 1926: 236; Bolton, 1995b: 299.

Obsolete combinations

Oligomyrmex hewitti

Citations

Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
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
Santschi, F. 1919a. Cinq notes myrmécologiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 52:325-350. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

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