Tetraponera bifoveolata maculifrons

Tetraponera bifoveolata maculifrons (Santschi, 1912) junior synonym of current valid taxon Tetraponera ambigua (Emery, 1895)

Sima foveolata st. maculifrons [sic] Santschi, 1912b: 162 (w.) Note: foveolata is a misspelling of Tetraponera bifoveolata. DJIBOUTI. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Djibouti: Obock, 1893 (Maindron). Primary type depositories: MNHN, NHMB. Type notes: Ward, 2006: 123, cites 4 worker syntypes.

Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921c: 27.
Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, 1922: 796.
Subspecies of Tetraponera bifoveolata: Emery, 1921c: 27; Wheeler, 1922: 796; Santschi, 1934f: 165; Bernard, 1948: 137; Bernard, 1950c: 285; Bernard, 1953a: 136; Bolton, 1995b: 418.
Junior synonym of Tetraponera ambigua: Ward, 2006: 123

Obsolete combinations

Sima bifoveolata maculifrons

Infrasubspecies

T. b. m. umbrata (Santschi, 1929)

Citations

Bernard, F. 1948. Les insectes sociaux du Fezzân. Comportement et biogéographie. Pp. 87-200 in: Bernard, F.; Peyerimhoff, P. de 1948. Mission scientifique du Fezzân (1944-1945). Tome V. Zoologie. Alger: Institut de Recherches Sahariennes de l'Université d'Alger, 248 pp. PDF
Bernard, F. 1950c. Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr. Hyménoptères Formicidae. Mémoires de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire 10:284-294. PDF
Bernard, F. 1953a. Les fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Pp. 121-250 in: Bernard, F. (ed.) 1953. Mission scientifique au Tassili des Ajjer (1949). Volume I. Recherches zoologiques et médicales. Paris: P. Lechevalier, 302 pp. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 + 7 plates. PDF
Santschi, F. 1912b. Fourmis d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 56:150-167. PDF
Santschi, F. 1934f. Fourmis du Sahara central. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 4:165-177. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2006. The ant genus Tetraponera in the Afrotropical region: synopsis of species groups and revision of the T. ambigua-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:119-130. 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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