Carebara erythraea

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Afrotropical Region: Eritrea, Ethiopia.

Nomenclature

 * . Oligomyrmex erythraeus Emery, 1915g: 14, fig. 7 (s.w.) ERITREA.
 * Type-material: 3 syntype major workers, syntype minor workers (number not stated).
 * Type-locality: Eritrea: Ghinda (F. Silvestri).
 * Type-depository: MSNG.
 * [Misspelled as erithaea by Finzi, 1939a: 165.]
 * Combination in O. (Oligomyrmex): Emery, 1924d: 217;
 * combination in Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 235.
 * Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 882; Emery, 1924d: 217; Finzi, 1939a: 165; Weber, 1950a: 9; Ettershank, 1966: 123; Bolton, 1995b: 299; Madl, 2019: 14.
 * Distribution: Eritrea.

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.
 * Emery C. 1915. Formiche raccolte nell'Eritrea dal Prof. F. Silvestri. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 10: 3-26.
 * Finzi B. 1939. Materiali zoologici dell'Eritrea raccolti da G. Müller durante la spedizione dell'Istituto Sieroterapico Milanese e conservati al Museo di Trieste. Parte III. Hymenoptera: Formicidae. Atti del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Trieste 14: 153-168.
 * IZIKO South Africa Museum Collection
 * Madl M. 2019. Notes on the ant fauna of Eritrea (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae): type specimens deposited in the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) and a preliminary checklist. Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 121: 9-18.
 * 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