Brachymyrmex cavernicola

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Brachymyrmex cavernicola Wheeler, 1938 valid

Brachymyrmex cavernicola Wheeler, 1938: 252 (w.m.) MEXICO (Yucatan). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ortiz-Sepúlveda et al., 2019: 479). Primary type locality: lectotype Mexico: Yucatan, Chichen Itza, Balaam Canche Cave, 13.vi.1936 (H.S. Pearse). Primary type depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 21 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype male. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MCZC, USNM. Type notes: Original description cites 33 worker, 1 male syntypes.

Lectotype designation: Ortiz-Sepúlveda et al., 2019: 479.
Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 82; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 255; Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019: 728; Ortiz-Sepúlveda et al., 2019: 479 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
Fernández, F.; Ortiz-Sepúlveda, C. M. 2019. Subfamilia Formicinae. Capítulo 25. Pp. 721-741 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Ortiz-Sepúlveda, C. M.; Van Bocxlaer, B.; Meneses, A. D.; Fernández, F. 2019. Molecular and morphological recognition of species boundaries in the neglected ant genus Brachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Toward a taxonomic revision. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19:447-542. 10.1007/s13127-019-00406-2 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1938. Ants from the caves of Yucatan. Pp. 251-255 in: Pearse, A. S. 1938. Fauna of the caves of Yucatan. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 491:1-304. PDF

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