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Forel, 1910: 422.
<bibRefCitation id="69DC27FB9110D2360D422B1340F5CAA1" DOI="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.54863" author="Emery, C" journalOrPublisher="Genera Insectorum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 125" refId="B12" refString="Emery, C, 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1 - 125, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.54863" title="Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae." url="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.54863" volume="118" year="1911">Emery 1911</bibRefCitation>
: 9;
<bibRefCitation id="48A70CB8DFF2AEF924075772EA68AF15" author="Arnold, G" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the South African Museum, Cape Town" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 159" publicationUrl="https://biostor.org/reference/109829" refId="B2" refString="Arnold, G, 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum, Cape Town 14: 1 - 159, https://biostor.org/reference/109829" title="A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae." url="https://biostor.org/reference/109829" volume="14" year="1915">Arnold 1915</bibRefCitation>
: 16;
<bibRefCitation id="AAB29C3766272C554F77A0F1B84BC26E" author="Wheeler, WM" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" publicationUrl="http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" refId="B25" refString="Wheeler, WM, 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" title="Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition." url="http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" year="1922">Wheeler 1922</bibRefCitation>
: 756; Brown 1975: 24, 63;
<bibRefCitation id="C7EF83629C83F833D0AD8E252F133D7E" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B3" refString="Bolton, B, 1995. A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts" title="A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World." year="1995">Bolton 1995</bibRefCitation>
: 145;
<bibRefCitation id="B8FF9F444656B8BBEA512077D0540494" author="Collingwood, CA" editor="van Harten, A" journalOrPublisher="4). Dar Al Ummah Publishers, Abu Dhabi" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="405 - 474" refId="B11" refString="Collingwood, CA, Agosti, D, Sharaf, MR, van Harten, A, 2011. Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae. In: van Harten, A, Ed., Arthropod Fauna of the UAE (Vol. 4). Dar Al Ummah Publishers, Abu Dhabi: 405 - 474" title="Order Hymenoptera, family Formicidae." volumeTitle="Arthropod Fauna of the UAE (Vol." year="2011">Collingwood et al. 2011</bibRefCitation>
(dubious record): 410;
<bibRefCitation id="52881D4924FE435D3315EAB008B0E3D3" author="Borowiec, L" journalOrPublisher="Genus" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 340" refId="B5" refString="Borowiec, L, 2014. Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Genus 25 (1-2): 1 - 340" title="Catalogue of ants of Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and adjacent regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)." volume="25" year="2014">Borowiec 2014</bibRefCitation>
: 62. Combination in
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:
<bibRefCitation id="9AAFC40DDDD37F07F860CFDDAE500628" DOI="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.54863" author="Emery, C" journalOrPublisher="Genera Insectorum" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 125" refId="B12" refString="Emery, C, 1911. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1 - 125, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.54863" title="Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae." url="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.54863" volume="118" year="1911">Emery 1911</bibRefCitation>
: 99. Combination in
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:
<bibRefCitation id="EA9D4F453E58C3A0A005AB053E66F279" DOI="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.608.9427" author="Borowiec, ML" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 280" refId="B6" refString="Borowiec, ML, 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1 - 280, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.608.9427" title="Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)." url="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.608.9427" volume="608" year="2016">Borowiec 2016</bibRefCitation>
: 129.
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<taxonomicName id="3DCCE91FC4A9279EE0D7E557AA4ABBC1" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cerapachys" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cerapachys wroughtoni subsp. var. var. rhodesiana" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="variety" species="wroughtoni" subSpecies="var." variety="rhodesiana">Cerapachys wroughtoni var. rhodesiana</taxonomicName>
Forel, 1913: 212.
<bibRefCitation id="10B91505C976FBDBE2DE1C0CA91D5933" author="Arnold, G" journalOrPublisher="Annals of the South African Museum, Cape Town" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="1 - 159" publicationUrl="https://biostor.org/reference/109829" refId="B2" refString="Arnold, G, 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Annals of the South African Museum, Cape Town 14: 1 - 159, https://biostor.org/reference/109829" title="A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae." url="https://biostor.org/reference/109829" volume="14" year="1915">Arnold 1915</bibRefCitation>
: 16;
<bibRefCitation id="B3E723A2C586AF7D8688A0F03256832F" author="Wheeler, WM" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" publicationUrl="http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" refId="B25" refString="Wheeler, WM, 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" title="Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition." url="http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" year="1922">Wheeler 1922</bibRefCitation>
: 756. Junior synonym of
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: Brown 1975: 24;
<bibRefCitation id="FED6559B5B7DB55287F83E3CCF532F45" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B3" refString="Bolton, B, 1995. A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts" title="A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World." year="1995">Bolton 1995</bibRefCitation>
: 144.
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<taxonomicName id="E87352AA27B567465A2589DBD2000989" class="Insecta" family="Formicidae" genus="Cerapachys" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Cerapachys roberti" order="Hymenoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="roberti">Cerapachys roberti</taxonomicName>
Forel, 1914: 212.
<bibRefCitation id="554569E3182CD9C86CF6B223D9F29968" author="Wheeler, WM" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" publicationUrl="http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" refId="B25" refString="Wheeler, WM, 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" title="Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition." url="http://hdl.handle.net/2246/932" year="1922">Wheeler 1922</bibRefCitation>
: 756; Arnold 1926: 192. Junior synonym of
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: Brown 1975: 24;
<bibRefCitation id="49DC55A97DC48891F1E31DD025280246" author="Bolton, B" journalOrPublisher="Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B3" refString="Bolton, B, 1995. A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts" title="A New General Catalogue of the Ants of the World." year="1995">Bolton 1995</bibRefCitation>
: 144.
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<paragraph id="91F6C2A5A6A0364B7CBA074AB76C6DCE" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Type material images examined.</paragraph>
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The following type materials of
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<emphasis id="D63B806035F4C3F0A5AF0EF4F015DD40" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. wroughtoni</emphasis>
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and its two junior synonyms were non-physically examined based on the images available from AntWeb (https://www.antweb.org):
<taxonomicName id="7CA2C8E8D4D7502AD947FBF19E2DC498" lsidName="E. wroughtoni" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="wroughtoni">
<emphasis id="FB457D72A990B58CD7BBBA051BB38537" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. wroughtoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(Forel, 1910), syntype, CASENT0249876 (MHNG);
<taxonomicName id="25E371A754846A31FC87641683EEEC0A" lsidName="E. wroughtoni subsp. var. var. rhodesiana" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="variety" species="wroughtoni" subSpecies="var." variety="rhodesiana">E. wroughtoni var. rhodesiana</taxonomicName>
(Forel, 1913), syntype, CASENT0907055 (MHNG);
<taxonomicName id="B1D49148B6F2ABE371CAB6A84BC437FA" lsidName="E. roberti" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="roberti">
<emphasis id="C18243BC8A92EB21B80EE5662E611221" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. roberti</emphasis>
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(Forel, 1910), syntypes, CASENT0907054 (MHNG), CASENT0902707 (NHMUK).
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<paragraph id="DCEA60FDC4EC5D7938A99C12D14E731B" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Notes.</paragraph>
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Although Brown (1975) treated two southern African
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<emphasis id="8F515AF56216274A6DE5918061FAD7D4" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Eburopone</emphasis>
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(sub)species,
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<emphasis id="39E110671D4E4F267E0D3E5E4D9A356C" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. roberti</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="8C6B9B91135064D474682A89E15FF86C" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. w. rhodesiana</emphasis>
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as junior synonyms of
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<emphasis id="6D9CE8694DA892E6824B20D77F15E375" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. wroughtoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the types of these names show conspicuous morphological differences, especially between
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<emphasis id="A247D3B17BA35BF29B22F6A6628DC183" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. w. rhodesiana</emphasis>
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and the others.
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<emphasis id="0D4716AB234685D1607CD4D8EA7B19E0" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Eburopone w. rhodesiana</emphasis>
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is the most morphologically distinct among these by i) lateroventral flange of occipital carina less developed; ii) promesonotal suture inconspicuous (hardly recognizable in the examined image); iii) abdominal segment III distinctly wider than long.
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<emphasis id="5F5711FC1490108FA3175A7B9DA80964" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Eburopone roberti</emphasis>
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is different from the syntype of
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<emphasis id="5D6BAE6E5FF692C4FC100C9D37D957FA" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. wroughtoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
at least by having deeper and more prominent promesonotal suture. The differences suggest a possible heterospecificity of these names, especially for
<taxonomicName id="61627C2A47721F64C1BF2B69347D2E82" lsidName="E. w. subsp. rhodesiana" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="subSpecies" species="w." subSpecies="rhodesiana">
<emphasis id="8C115432F2CE9EFA3D26377E6CA42ADE" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. w. rhodesiana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. However, their taxonomic statuses are not addressed in the present study, since it would be appropriate to examine additional colony series; additionally, many undescribed species are known from the Afrotropical and Malagasy regions. Even if multiple species are confused under
<taxonomicName id="C84CC3710012A8BB8243B2A6ABEC029C" lsidName="E. wroughtoni" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="wroughtoni">
<emphasis id="F0328DEE8CC4A3A6D48E6DC2210E24AB" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. wroughtoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, the independence of
<taxonomicName id="A06950838D7EE1675BC4E4CF87F8371C" lsidName="E. easoana" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="easoana">
<emphasis id="C4E760CACEA0E6C542FE8A8B60F676D9" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">E. easoana</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
at the species level is unquestionable.
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