Azteca velox nigriventris

Azteca velox nigriventris Forel, 1899 junior synonym of current valid taxon Azteca velox Forel, 1899

Azteca velox var. nigriventris Forel, 1899h: 109 (w.q.) COLOMBIA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Colombia: San Antonio, 1000 m. (A. Forel) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 36; no lectotype designated), Colombia: foot of Sierra Nevada (A. Forel). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MHNG. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 29, cites 34 worker, 2 queen syntypes (3 workers in BMNH, 31 workers, 2 queens in MHNG).

Subspecies of Azteca velox: Forel, 1906d: 241; Forel, 1908c: 62; Forel, 1908a: 63; Forel, 1912i: 48; Emery, 1913a: 35; Wheeler, 1916f: 330; Wheeler, 1922e: 15; Borgmeier, 1923: 97; Wheeler, 1942: 247; Kempf, 1972b: 36; Shattuck, 1994: 29; Bolton, 1995b: 79.
Junior synonym of Azteca velox: Longino, 2007: 50

Citations

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Forel, A. 1906d. Fourmis néotropiques nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 50:225-249. PDF
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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. 1916f. Ants collected in Trinidad by Professor Roland Thaxter, Mr. F. W. Urich, and others. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60:323-330. PDF
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