Asphinctopone silvestrii

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

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Asphinctopone silvestrii Santschi, 1914 valid

Asphinctopone silvestrii Santschi, 1914d: 318, fig. 6a, b (w.) NIGERIA. Afrotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Nigeria: Olokemeji, xii.1912 (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: holotype not in DEUN or NHMB, presumed lost (Bolton & Fisher, 2008a: 57).

Bolton & Fisher, 2008a: 58 (q.).
Status as species: Wheeler, 1922: 783; Bolton, 1995b: 75; Bolton & Fisher, 2008a: 57 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Asphinctopone lamottei: Bolton & Fisher, 2008a: 57.
Senior synonym of Asphinctopone lucidus: Bolton & Fisher, 2008a: 57.

Junior synonyms

Asphinctopone lamottei (Bernard, 1953)
Obsolete combination(s): Lepidopone lamottei
Asphinctopone lucidus Weber, 1949

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. 2008a. The Afrotropical ponerine ant genus Asphinctopone Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1827:53-61. PDF
Santschi, F. 1914d. Formicides de l'Afrique occidentale et australe du voyage de Mr. le Professeur F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 8:309-385. 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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