Azteca alfari mixta

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Azteca alfari mixta Forel, 1908 junior synonym of current valid taxon Azteca alfari Emery, 1893

Azteca alfari var. mixta Forel, 1908: 386 (w.q.m.) PARAGUAY. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Longino, 1989b: 6). Primary type locality: lectotype Paraguay: San Bernardino (K.A.G. Fiebrig). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paralectotype workers, paralectotype queens, paralectotype males (numbers not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 80, cites 1 worker, 1 queen syntypes in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 11, cites 16 worker, 6 queen, 5 male paralectotypes in MHNG. 3) Other original syntype locality: Brazil: São Paulo (H. von Ihering) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 29; no lectotype designated). 4) Brazil specimens excluded from type-series by Longino, 1989b: 7.

Lectotype designation: Longino, 1989b: 6.
Subspecies of Azteca alfari: Emery, 1913a: 31; Borgmeier, 1923: 89; Wheeler & Bequaert, 1929: 33; Wheeler, 1942: 219; Kempf, 1972b: 29.
Junior synonym of Azteca alfari: Longino, 1989b: 5; Brandão, 1991: 329; Shattuck, 1994: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 79; Longino, 2007: 15.

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.
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.
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. 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
Longino, J. T. 1989b. Taxonomy of the Cecropia-inhabiting ants in the Azteca alfari species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): evidence for two broadly sympatric species. Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 412:1-16. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2007. A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group. Zootaxa 1491:1-63. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF
Wheeler, W. M.; Bequaert, J. C. 1929. Amazonian myrmecophytes and their ants. Zoologischer Anzeiger 82:10-39. PDF

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