Carebara punctata

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

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Carebara punctata (Karavaiev, 1931) junior synonym of current valid taxon Carebara silvestrii (Santschi, 1914)

Aneleus (Aneleus) punctatus Karavaiev, 1931d: 43, fig. 2 (w.) KENYA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype minor worker. Primary type locality: Kenya (“Englisch-Ostafrika”): Mabira, no. 5323 (W.A. Dogiel & J.J. Sokolov). Primary type depository: SIZK. Primary type specimen: CASENT0917023.

Combination in Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 124.
Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 300.
Junior synonym of Carebara silvestrii: Fischer et al., 2014: 94

Obsolete combinations

Aneleus punctatus

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
Fischer, G.; Azorsa, F.; Fisher, B. L. 2014. The ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymenoptera, Formicidae): synonymisation of Pheidologeton Mayr under Carebara, establishment and revision of the C. polita species group. ZooKeys 438:57-112. PDF
Karavaiev, V. 1931d. Ameisen aus Englisch-Ostafrika. Zoologischer Anzeiger 95:42-51. PDF

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