Bothroponera
Creators: name: Schmidt, C. A.
name: Shattuck, S. O.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hymenoptera
Formicidae
Bothroponera

description: Species of Bothroponera
For keys to African Bothroponera species see Wheeler (1922b) or Arnold (1952; South African species only) and for Malagasy species see Rakotonirina & Fisher (2013).
Bothroponera (sensu stricto: B. pumicosa group)
B. cambouei Forel, 1891: Madagascar
B. cariosa Emery, 1895: Mozambique
B. cavernosa (Roger, 1860): South Africa
B. cavernosa montivaga Arnold, 1947: South Africa
B. comorensis (André, 1887): Madagascar
B. cribrata (Santschi, 1910): Congo (comb. rev.)
B. fugax (Forel, 1907): Tanzania (comb. rev.)
B. granosa (Roger, 1860): South Africa
B. laevissima (Arnold, 1915): South Africa
B. laevissima aspera Arnold, 1962: South Africa
B. masoala (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013): Madagascar (comb. nov.)
B. mlanjiensis Arnold, 1946: Malawi (comb. rev.)
B. pachyderma (Emery, 1901): Cameroon (comb. rev.)
B. pachyderma attenata (Santschi, 1920): DRC (comb. nov.)
B. pachyderma funerea Wheeler, W.M. 1922: DRC (comb. rev.)
B. pachyderma postsquamosa (Santschi, 1920): Congo (comb. nov.)
B. perroti Forel, 1891: Madagascar
B. planicornis (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013): Madagascar (comb. nov.)
B. pumicosa (Roger, 1860): South Africa
B. pumicosa sculpturata (Santschi, 1912b): Zimbabwe (comb. nov.)
B. rubescens Santschi, 1937: DRC (comb. rev.)
B. sanguinea (Santschi, 1920): DRC (comb. rev.)
B. strigulosa Emery, 1895: South Africa
B. talpa André, 1890: Sierra Leone (comb. rev.)
B. talpa variolata (Santschi, 1912): Congo (comb. nov.)
B. tavaratra (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013): Madagascar (comb. nov.)
B. umgodikulula Joma and Mackay, 2013: South Africa
B. variolosa Arnold, 1947: South Africa
B. wasmannii Forel, 1887: Madagascar
B. vazimba (Rakotonirina & Fisher, 2013): Madagascar (comb. nov.)
Bothroponera (incertae sedis: B. sulcata group)
B. crassa (Emery, 1877): Ethiopia (comb. rev.)
B. crassa crassior Santschi, 1930: Kenya (comb. rev.)
B. crassa ilgii (Forel, 1910): Ethiopia (comb. nov.)
B. glabripes Emery, 1893: Philippines
B. henryi (Donisthorpe, 1942): India
B. kenyensis Santschi, 1937: Kenya (comb. rev.)
B. kruegeri (Forel, 1910): South Africa
B. kruegeri asina (Santschi, 1912): Kenya (comb. rev.)
B. kruegeri rhodesiana (Forel, 1913): Zimbabwe (comb. rev.)
B. lamottei Bernard, 1953: Guinea (comb. rev.)
B. picardi (Forel, 1901): Angola (comb. rev.)
B. rubiginosa (Emery, 1889): Myanmar
B. silvestrii (Santschi, 1914): Ghana (comb. rev.)
B. silvestrii nimba Bernard, 1953: Guinea (comb. rev.)
B. soror (Emery, 1899): Cameroon (comb. rev.)
B. soror ancilla (Emery, 1899): Congo (comb. rev.)
B. soror suturalis (Forel, 1907): Ethiopia (comb. nov.)
B. sulcata (Mayr, 1867): “Vaterland unbekannt”
B. sulcata fossulata (Forel, 1900): India
B. sulcata sulcatotesserinoda (Forel, 1900): India
B. tesseronoda (Emery, 1877): India
B. williamsi Wheeler, W.M. & Chapman, 1925: Philippines
B. zumpti Santschi, 1937: Cameroon (comb. nov.)
description: Published as part of Schmidt, C. A. & Shattuck, S. O., 2014, The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior, pp. 1-242 in Zootaxa 3817 (1) on pages 76-77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10086256