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Genus: Plectroctena   Smith, 1858 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

16 species

Plectroctena Smith, 1858a PDF: 101. Type-species: Plectroctena mandibularis, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Plectroctena in Poneridae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 101.
Plectroctena in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862 PDF: 713 [Poneridae]; Mayr, 1865 PDF: 12 [Poneridae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 31.
Plectroctena in Pachycondylinae, Pachycondylini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382.
Plectroctena in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 767; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e PDF: 94 [subtribe Plectroctenini]; Arnold, 1915: 84; Forel, 1917 PDF: 238; Wheeler, 1922: 650; all subsequent authors.
Genus Plectroctena references
Roger, 1863b: 19 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 442 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 12 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 31 (catalogue); Emery, 1911e PDF: 94 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 84 (diagnosis, South Africa species); Wheeler, 1922: 85, 783, 785, 786 (diagnosis, Plectroctena, Myopias, Cacopone catalogues); Santschi, 1924a PDF: 172 (all species revision, key); Bolton, 1974c PDF: 309 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 337 (catalogue); Bolton & Brown, 2002 PDF: 11 (all species key); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 169 (synopsis); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 174 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations)

Taxon Page Images:



A Plectroctena cristata forager poses with a millipede she has paralyzed. Kibale Forest, Uganda.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical bioregion.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Ashanti, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, East, Eastern, Eastern Africa, Eastern Cape, Equatorial Guinea, Estuaire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gauteng, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kabarole, Kakamega, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Limpopo, Lindi, Malawi, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Namibia, Nigeria, Ogooué-Maritime, Pwani, Rwanda, Sangha-Mbaéré, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South, South Africa, South-West, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Western Africa, Western Cape, Woleu-Ntem, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Plectroctena   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 85-87, (download) 85-87 20597
Plectroctena   Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum, pp. -1--1: 101, (download) 101 8127


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