Carebara alluaudi

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Kenya.

Nomenclature

 * . Oligomyrmex alluaudi Santschi, 1913e: 459, 460 (diagnosis in key) (s.w.) KENYA.
 * Type-material: 2 syntype major workers, 9 syntype minor workers.
 * Type-locality: 2 major workers, 5 minor workers Kenya (“Afrique orientale anglaise”): Shimoni, st. no. 9, xi.1911 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel) (by restriction of Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 881).
 * [Note: locality data from Santschi, 1914b: 81. Santschi, 1913e: 459, mistakenly gives “Kilimanjaro”. Other syntype locality: 4 minor workers Kenya: Kijabé, Kikuyu Escarpment, 2100 m., st. no. 27, xii.1911 (Ch. Alluaud & R. Jeannel).]
 * Type-depository: NHMB.
 * [Also described as new by Santschi, 1914b: 81 (s.w. descriptions).]
 * Combination in O. (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924d: 217;
 * combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
 * Status as species: Santschi, 1914b: 81; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 881; Emery, 1924d: 217; Weber, 1950a: 3; Ettershank, 1966: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 298; Hita Garcia, et al. 2013: 208.
 * Senior synonym of kenyensis (unnecessary replacement name): Bolton, 1995b: 298.
 * Distribution: Kenya.
 * Current subspecies: nominal plus cataractae.
 * kenyensis. Oligomyrmex kenyensis Ettershank, 1966: 123.
 * Unnecessary replacement name for alluaudi Santschi, 1914b: 81; hence junior synonym of alluaudi: Bolton, 1995b: 299.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Braet Y., and B. Taylor. 2008. Mission entomologique au Parc National de Pongara (Gabon). Bilan des Formicidae (Hymenoptera) recoltes. Bulletin S. R. B. E./K.B.V.E. 144: 157-169.
 * Ettershank G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171.
 * Ross S. R. P. J., F. Hita Garcia, G. Fischer, and M. K. Peters. 2018. Selective logging intensity in an East African rain forest predicts reductions in ant diversity. Biotropica 1-11.
 * Weber N. A. 1943. The ants of the Imatong Mountains, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 93: 263-389.
 * Weber N. A. 1950. The African species of the genus Oligomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Am. Mus. Novit. 1442: 1-19.
 * Wheeler W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VIII. A synonymic list of the ants of the Ethiopian region. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45: 711-1004