The Ants of Africa
Genus Tetraponera
Tetraponera penzigi (Mayr)

Tetraponera penzigi (Mayr)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Tanzania (Sima Penzigi (Emery in litt) n. sp., Mayr, 1907b: 10, all forms; in Tetraponera, Wheeler, 1922: 800); subspecies continua from Ethiopia (Forel, 1907c: 138, worker) and praestigiatrix from Tanzania (Santschi, 1937a: 50, queen); all forms described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Mayr's (1907b) description is at {original description}. Forel's (1907c) description of continua is at {original description}. Arnold (1916: 180) gave a straight translation; this is at {original description}. Santschi's (1937a) description of praestigiatrix is at {original description}.

Curiously, Mayr (1907b) pointed out that a specimen from Ethiopia (Abyssinia) had been sent to him by Emery, with a letter in which he assigned the name penzigi, denoting the collector as a botanist named Penzig.
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