Bothroponera crassa crassior

Bothroponera crassa crassior
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Bothroponera ilgii)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ponerinae
Tribe:	Ponerini
Genus:	Bothroponera
Species group:	sulcata
Species:	Bothroponera crassa crassior Santschi, 1930

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Bothroponera ilgii.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

• crassior. Bothroponera crassa var. crassior Santschi, 1930a: 53 (w.) KENYA.
  • Santschi, 1930c: 267 (m.).
  • Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 304.
  • Combination in Bothroponera: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 77.
  • Subspecies of crassa: Santschi, 1930c: 267; Santschi, 1932a: 382; Bolton, 1995b: 304.
  • Status as species: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 17 (redescription).
  • Synonym of ilgii: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 17.
  • [Note: Joma & Mackay, 2017: 17 give crassior as senior synonym, but ilgii has priority.]
  • Material of the unavailable name andrieui referred here by Joma & Mackay, 2017: 17.

References

• Forel, A. 1910c. Ameisen aus der Kolonie Erythräa. Gesammelt von Prof. Dr. K. Escherich (nebst einigen in West-Abessinien von Herrn A. Ilg gesammelten Ameisen). Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 29: 243-274 (page 244, worker described [Unresolved junior secondary homonym of ilgii Forel])
• Joma, A.M.A. & Mackay, W.P. 2017. Revision of the African ants of the Bothroponera sulcata species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 143: 7-71.
• 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. Zootaxa 3817, 1–242 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1).