Promyopias asili

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

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Promyopias asili Crawley, 1916 junior synonym of current valid taxon Promyopias silvestrii (Santschi, 1914)

Promyopias asili Crawley, 1916a: 30, fig. (q.) MALAWI. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Malawi (“Nyasaland”): Mlanje, 15.xi.1913 (S.A. Neave). Primary type depository: BMNH. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902464.

Combination in Pseudoponera (Promyopias): Wheeler, 1922: 779
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 779.
Junior synonym of Promyopias silvestrii: Brown, 1963a: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 140; Bolton & Fisher, 2008c: 31.

Citations

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
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1963a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora 190:1-10. PDF
Crawley, W. C. 1916a. A new species of ponerine ant captured by an Asilus. Entomologist 49:30-31. 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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