Acropyga pickeli

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Acropyga pickeli Borgmeier, 1927 junior synonym of current valid taxon Acropyga goeldii Forel, 1893

Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) pickeli Borgmeier, 1927a: 287, figs. 1, 2 (w.q.) BRAZIL (Paraíba). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”), 1 syntype queen. Primary type locality: Brazil: Parahyba, Bananeiros, ix.1927 (B. Pickel). Primary type depository: MZSP. Type notes: LaPolla, 2004a: 50, cites 2 queen syntypes in MCZC, but the original description says that only a single queen (“uma femea”) was present.

Weber, 1944b: 102 (m.)
Status as species: Borgmeier, 1927c: 138; Borgmeier, 1932a: 238; Wheeler, 1935f: 327; Donisthorpe, 1936b: 110 (in list); Weber, 1944b: 102 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 58.
Junior synonym of Acropyga decedens: Costa Lima, 1931: 7
Junior synonym of Acropyga goeldii: LaPolla, 2004a: 50

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1927a. Um caso de trophobiose entre uma formiga e um parasita do caféeiro. Boletim do Museu Nacional de Rio de Janeiro 3:285-289. PDF
Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
Borgmeier, T. 1932a. A proposito de Acropyga pickeli Borgm. (1927) (Hym. Formicidae). Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 2:238-239. PDF
Costa Lima, A. da 1931. A proposito da Acropyga pickeli Borgm., 1927 (Hymenoptera: Formicoidea). Boletim Biológico. Rio de Janeiro 17:2-9. PDF
Donisthorpe, H. 1936b. Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) robae sp. nov. (Hym. Formicidae), a new S. American ant, with remarks on the genus, etc. Entomologist 69:108-111. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
LaPolla, J. S. 2004a. Acropyga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the world. Contributions of the American Entomological Institute 33(3):1-130. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1944b. The neotropical coccid-tending ants of the genus Acropyga Roger. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 37:89-122. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935f. Ants of the genus Acropyga Roger, with description of a new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 43:321-329. PDF

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