Carebara termitolestes

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Democratic Republic of Congo.

Nomenclature

 * . Paedalgus termitolestes Wheeler, W.M. 1918c: 301, fig. 5 (w.l.) DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO.
 * Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated), syntype larvae.
 * Type-locality: Democratic Republic of Congo (“Belgian Congo”): Malela (H.O. Lang).
 * [Note: locality from Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 178, who also records Lang, Chapin & Bequaert as collectors.]
 * Type-depositories: BMNH, MCZC.
 * [Also described as new by Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 177].
 * Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1954a: 143 (l.).
 * [Note: the male described by Bolton, 1969: 14 as termitolestes is correctly distincta.]
 * Combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 177; Emery, 1924d: 221; Ettershank, 1966: 129; Bolton & Belshaw, 1993: 189 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 311.
 * Distribution; Democratic Republic of Congo.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Taylor B. 1980. Ants of the Nigerian Forest Zone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). IV. Myrmicinae (Myrmecinini to Tetramoriini). Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria Research Bulletin 7: 1-63.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. II. The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 39-269.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1936. Ecological relations of ponerine and other ants to termites. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 71: 159-243.
 * Yeo K., T. Delsinne, S. Komate, L. L. Alonso, D. Aidara, and C. Peeters. 2016. Diversity and distribution of ant assemblages above and below ground in a West African forest–savannah mosaic (Lamto, Cote d’Ivoire). Insectes Sociaux DOI 10.1007/s00040-016-0527-6