Azteca aesopus

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Azteca aesopus Forel, 1908 valid

Azteca aesopus Forel, 1908: 392 (w.) BRAZIL (Espírito Santo). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Espírito Santo, Santa Leopoldina, Porto Cachoeira, 1.xii.1905 (E. Garbe). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MZSP, NHMB. Primary type specimens: CASENT0909581 (MP 2262), CASENT0909582 (MP 2262), MZSP0078144, MZSP0078145. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 80, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 11, cites 7 worker syntypes (6 in MHNG, 1 in NHMB). 3) Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table 2, supply the corrected collection details from the handwritten catalogues at MZSP: MP 2262, Formigas Azteca aesopus n. sp. (Formicidae), 1.xii.1905, Porto Cachoeira, Colonia Leopoldina [= Santa Leopoldina], Est. Espírito Santo, E. Garbe, tiradas de tronco de imbaúba [taken from the trunk of an imbaúba tree] Forel det. Emery det. 8/i/06. 4) Original collection information: Brazil: São Paulo (H. von Ihering). 5) Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S1, cite 4 syntype workers in MZSP.

Status as species: Emery, 1913a: 31; Luederwaldt, 1918: 47; Borgmeier, 1923: 88; Kempf, 1972b: 29; Shattuck, 1994: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 78.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24:33-103. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1908. Ameisen aus Sao Paulo (Brasilien), Paraguay etc. gesammelt von Prof. Herm. v. Ihering, Dr. Lutz, Dr. Fiebrig, etc. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 58:340-418. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. 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
Ulysséa, M. A.; Santos, S.; Moleiro, H. P.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Camacho, G. P. 2025. The MZSP Ant Type Collection: a complete catalogue and digital resource for global access. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3):blaf034, 17 pp. [online early] 10.1093/biolinnean/blaf034 PDF

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