Cephalotes insularis

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Cephalotes insularis (Wheeler, 1934) valid

Cryptocerus pilosus subsp. insularis Wheeler, 1934f: 140 (w.) MEXICO (Nayarit). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Snelling, 1968a: 4). Primary type locality: neotype Mexico: Nayarit, Maria Magdalena I. (Tres Marias group), 25.iii.1964. no. 36425-c (R.R. Snelling). Primary type depository: LACM (neotype). Type notes: Original type-data: holotype worker Mexico: Tres Marias Is, Maria Madre I., 21.v.1925 (W.M. Wheeler), lost (not in MCZC or LACM (Kempf, 1958a: 128, Snelling, 1968a: 4)).

Neotype designation: Snelling, 1968a: 4.
Snelling, 1968a: 4 (s.); De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 588 (q.)
Combination in Paracryptocerus (Harnedia): Kempf, 1958a: 128.
Combination in Cryptocerus (Cryptocerus): Snelling, 1968a: 4.
Combination in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 386.
Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 583.
Subspecies of Cephalotes pilosus: Wheeler, 1935g: 32.
Status as species: Kempf, 1958a: 128; Snelling, 1968a: 4; Kempf, 1972b: 178; Brandão, 1991: 386; Bolton, 1995b: 426; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 583 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Cryptocerus pilosus insularis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
De Andrade, M. L.; Baroni Urbani, C. 1999. Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 271:1-889. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1958a. New studies of the ant tribe Cephalotini (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica (n.s.)1:1-168.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Snelling, R. R. 1968a. Taxonomic notes on some Mexican cephalotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 132:1-10. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1934f. Ants from the islands off the west coast of Lower California and Mexico. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 10:132-144. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935g. Check list of the ants of Oceania. Occasional Papers of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum 11(11):1-56.

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