Centromyrmex arnoldi

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Centromyrmex arnoldi Santschi, 1919 junior synonym of current valid taxon Centromyrmex sellaris Mayr, 1896

Centromyrmex arnoldi Santschi, 1919b: 229, figs. a-d (w.m.) MOZAMBIQUE. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers and males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Mozambique (“Est-Africain portugais”): Amatongas Forest, ix.1917 (G. Arnold). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Syntypes: 2 workers, 3 males: Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 132.

Subspecies of Centromyrmex constanciae: Santschi, 1920b: 8; Wheeler, 1922: 762.
Junior synonym of Centromyrmex constanciae: Arnold, 1926: 199 (in text); Bolton, 1995b: 140.
Junior synonym of Centromyrmex sellaris: Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 22.

Citations

Arnold, G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum 23:191-295. PDF
Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B.; Fisher, B. L. 2008c. Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1929:1-37. PDF
Santschi, F. 1919b. Fourmis nouvelles éthiopiennes. Revue Zoologique Africaine (Brussels) 6:229-240. PDF
Santschi, F. 1920b. Formicides nouveaux du Gabon, du Congo, de la Rhodesia et du Natal. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 60:6-17. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 synonym)

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