Acropyga epedana

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Acropyga epedana Snelling, 1973 valid

Acropyga epedana Snelling, 1973a: 7, fig. 1 (w.) U.S.A. (Arizona). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Arizona, Cochise County, Huachuca Mts, 3.1 mi. W summit of Montezuma Pass, 5800 ft, 14.viii.1969, no. 69-307 (R.R. Snelling). Primary type depository: LACM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 3 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: LACM.

LaPolla et al., 2002: 369 (q.m.)
Status as species: Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1423; Bolton, 1995b: 57; LaPolla et al., 2002: 369; LaPolla, 2004a: 46 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
LaPolla, J. S.; Cover, S. P.; Mueller, U. G. 2002. Natural history of the mealybug-tending ant, Acropyga epedana, with descriptions of the male and queen castes. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 128:367-376.
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Snelling, R. R. 1973a. Two ant genera new to the United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 236:1-8. PDF

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