Parasyscia arnoldi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: South Africa.

Nomenclature

 * . Cerapachys arnoldi Forel, 1914d: 211 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
 * Type-material: holotype (?) worker.
 * [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Cape Colony (no collector’s name).
 * Type-depository: SAMC.
 * Combination in Parasyscia: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 204.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 755; Arnold, 1926: 191; Brown, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 142.
 * Senior synonym of hewitti: Brown, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 142.
 * Distribution: South Africa.
 * hewitti. Cerapachys arnoldi var. hewitti Arnold, 1926: 192 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Cape, Grahamstown (Hewitt).
 * Type-depository: SAMC.
 * Junior synonym of arnoldi: Brown, 1975: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 143.
 * keralensis. Cerapachys keralensis Karmaly, in Karmaly, et al. 2012: 157, 2 figs. (w.) INDIA (Kerala).
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker.
 * Type-locality: holotype India: Kerala, Palakkad, 10°47’N, 76°40’E, 84 m., 23.vi.2009 (Karmaly et al.); paratype with same data.
 * Type-depository SXAK.
 * [Note: Karmaly, et al. 2012: 158 state that type-material, “eventually will be transferred to Western Ghats Regional Station of Zoological Survey of India, Calicut” (= SZIK).]
 * Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Cerapachys: Bharti & Akbar, 2013a: 101.
 * Combination in Parasyscia: Borowiec, M.L. 2016: 205.
 * Distribution: India.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Arnold G. 1926. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Appendix. Annals of the South African Museum. 23: 191-295.
 * Borowiec M. L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1–280.
 * Forel A. 1914. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50: 211-288.