Cerapachys vespula (Weber)
Type location Kenya (Phyracaces vespula, Weber, 1949a:
5, illustrated antenna, worker; combination in Cerapachys by
Brown, 1975: 24) collected at Kavirondo at nearly 5000 feet asl,
17.ii.1948, by N A Weber; junior synonym cooperi (Phyracaces
cooperi, Arnold, 1915: 18, worker) from South Africa;
worker only described .
Weber's (1949a) description is at
.
Arnold's (1915) description of Phyracaces cooperi is at
.
Note the Arnold specimens were notably longer, TL 4.2-4,5 mm; than
those described by Weber, TL 3.8 mm.
The nomenclatorial oddity is due to prior naming, on an earlier
page, of Cerapachys cooperi by Arnold (1915: 14) and the
reduction of that to a junior synonym of Cerapachys afer Forel
(1907) by Brown ((1975: 22) |