Basiceros squamifer

Basiceros squamifer Borgmeier, 1937 junior synonym of current valid taxon Basiceros convexiceps (Mayr, 1887)

Basiceros squamifer Borgmeier, 1937b: 245, figs. 30-33 (w.q.l.) BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 60 syntype workers, 3 syntype queens. Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Jussaral, nr Angra dos Reis, 30.x.1935 (H. Souza Lopes & H. Lent). Primary type depositories: GUPC, IBVR, IMLT, MCZC, MNHN, MSNG, MZSP, USNM. Primary type specimens: MZSP0084465 to MZSP0084476. Type notes: Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S1, cite 27 syntype workers, 2 syntype queens in MZSP.

Status as species: Brown, 1949h: 89.
Junior synonym of Basiceros convexiceps: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 172; Kempf, 1972b: 36; Bolton, 1995b: 80; Probst & Brandão, 2022: 23.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1937b. Formigas novas ou pouco conhecidas da América do Sul e Central, principalmente do Brasil (Hym. Formicidae). Archivos do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal (Rio de Janeiro) 3:217-255. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949h. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini: IV. Some genera properly excluded from the Dacetini, with the establishment of the Basicerotini new tribe. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 75:83-96. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Probst, R. S.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2022. A taxonomic revision of the dirt ants, Basiceros Schulz, 1906 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 5149 (1):1-75. 10.11646/zootaxa.5149.1.1 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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