Forelius breviscapus
Forel, 1914
valid
Forelius maccooki r. breviscapus
[sic]
Forel, 1914d:
286 (w.)
Note: maccooki is a misspelling of Forelius mccooki.
ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Argentina: Buenos Aires (Rovereto) (by restriction of Kempf, 1972b: 109). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:
1) Shattuck, 1994: 92, cites 4 worker syntypes. 2) Other original syntype locality: Argentina: Santa Fé, Diamante (C. Bruch). 3) A lectotype may have been selected by Cuezzo, 2000; unfortunately the copy available to me (B. Bolton) lacks pages 236-237.
- [First available use of Forelius maccooki fiebrigi breviscapus ; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
- Cuezzo, 2000: 237 (q.m.).
- As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bruch, 1914: 226.
- Subspecies of Forelius maccooki: Forel, 1915c: 359; Bruch, 1915: 534; Gallardo, 1916b: 80.
- Status as species: Santschi, 1922c: 374; Kusnezov, 1953c: 339; Kusnezov, 1957e: 16 (in key); Kempf, 1972b: 109; Shattuck, 1994: 92; Bolton, 1995b: 190; Cuezzo, 2000: 235 (redescription).
- Senior synonym of Forelius breviscapus obscuratus: Cuezzo, 2000: 235.
- Senior synonym of Forelius instabilis: Cuezzo, 2000: 235.
Junior synonyms
- Forelius breviscapus obscuratus Santschi, 1922
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Forelius instabilis
Santschi, 1920
Obsolete combination(s): Forelius maccooki instabilis
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bruch, C. 1914. Catálogo sistemático de los formícidos argentinos. Revista del Museo de La Plata 19:211-234. PDF
- Bruch, C. 1915. Suplemento al catálogo de los formícidos argentinos. I. (Addenda et corrigenda). Revista del Museo de La Plata 19:527-537. PDF
- Cuezzo, F. 2000. Revisión del género Forelius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Sociobiology 35:197-275. PDF
- Forel, A. 1914d. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50:211-288. PDF
- Forel, A. 1915c. Formicides d'Afrique et d'Amérique nouveaux ou peu connus. IIe partie. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 50:335-364. PDF
- Gallardo, A. 1916b. Las hormigas de la República Argentina. Subfamilia Dolicoderinas. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 28:1-130. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Kusnezov, N. 1953c. Lista de las hormigas de Tucumán con descripción de dos nuevos géneros (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 13:327-339. PDF
- Kusnezov, N. 1957e. Nuevas especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista de la Sociedad Uruguaya de Entomología 2:7-18. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1922c. Myrmicines, dolichodérines et autres formicides néotropiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 54:345-378. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
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- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
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- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae
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