The Ants of Africa
Genus Oligomyrmex
Oligomyrmex (Aneleus) eidmanni (Menozzi)

Oligomyrmex (Aneleus) eidmanni (Santschi)

return to key {link to the Hymenoptera Name Server} Type location Brazil (Erebomyrma eidmanni nov. spec., Menozzi in Eidmann, 1936a: 47; illustrated in Eidmann, 1936b, Plate I, major, minor & queen; placed in Oligomyrmex by Ettershank, 1966: 123; reverted to Erebomyrma by Wilson, 1986b: 61; "revived combination" in Bolton, 1995: 299) type location Texas; queen only described (see Bolton, 1995) .

Menozzi, c. 1936a. In Eidmann, H. 1936a. Ökologisch-faunistische Studien an südbrasilianischen Ameisen. Arb. Physiol. Angew. Entomol. Berlin-Dahlem 3: 26-48
Menozzi, c. 1936a. In Eidmann, H. 1936b. Ökologisch-faunistische Studien an südbrasilianischen Ameisen. Arb. Physiol. Angew. Entomol. Berlin-Dahlem 3: 81-114

Junior synonym of Carebara urichi according to  Fernández (2004: 194).  The illustrations for urichi given by Fernández are not very similar to the Menozzi drawings


Erebomyrma eidmanniMenozzi's (1936a) inadequate description, he simply drew attention to the illustrations, is at {original description}.

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