Parasyscia cooperi

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

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Parasyscia cooperi (Arnold, 1915) junior synonym of current valid taxon Parasyscia afer (Forel, 1907)

Cerapachys cooperi Arnold, 1915: 14 (w.q.) SOUTH AFRICA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: South Africa: Durban, Umgeni (C.B. Cooper). Primary type depositories: NHMUK, SAMC. Primary type specimen: CASENT0902712.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 755.
Junior synonym of Parasyscia afer: Brown, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 142.

Obsolete combinations

Cerapachys cooperi

Citations

Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:1-159.
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. 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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