Prionopelta aethiopica

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania.

Nomenclature

 * . Prionopelta descarpentriesi subsp. aethiopica Arnold, 1949: 263, fig. 4 (w.) SOUTH AFRICA.
 * Type-material: holotype worker.
 * Type-locality: South Africa: Zululand, Richards Bay, ii. (J.C. Faure).
 * Type-depository: SAMC.
 * Status as species: Brown, 1960a: 177, 219; Bolton, 1995b: 364.
 * Distribution: South Africa.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Brown W. L., Jr. 1960. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. III. Tribe Amblyoponini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 122: 143-230.
 * Terron G. 1974. Découverte au Cameroun de deux espèces nouvelles du genre Prionopelta Mayr (Hym., Formicidae). Annales de la Faculté des Sciences, Université Fédérale du Cameroun 17: 105-119.