Technomyrmex wolfi

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Technomyrmex wolfi (Forel, 1916) junior synonym of current valid taxon Technomyrmex andrei Emery, 1899

Engramma wolfi Forel, 1916: 432, fig. 1 (w.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Democratic Republic of the Congo (“Congo”): St Gabriel (H. Kohl). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0909758. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 85, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 169, cites 5 worker syntypes in MHNG.

Wheeler, 1922: 204 (q.m.)
Combination in Technomyrmex: Shattuck, 1992c: 161.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 202 (in key), 923; Santschi, 1930a: 73; Shattuck, 1994: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 403.
Junior synonym of Technomyrmex andrei: Bolton, 2007b: 19.

Obsolete combinations

Engramma wolfi

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bolton, B. 2007b. Taxonomy of the dolichoderine ant genus Technomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) based on the worker caste. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 35(1):1-150. PDF
Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 24:397-460. PDF
Santschi, F. 1930a. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 70:49-77. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. 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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