Cephalotes ustus

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Cephalotes ustus (Kempf, 1973) valid

Zacryptocerus ustus Kempf, 1973c: 450, figs. 1-4 (w.) BRAZIL (Minas Gerais). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Minas Gerais, Pedra Azul, 800 m., xi.1972 (C.A.C. Seabra & M. Alvarenga). Primary type depository: MZSP. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: MZSP.

De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 284 (s.)
Combination in Cephalotes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 283
Status as species: Brandão, 1991: 384; Bolton, 1995b: 427; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 283 (redescription); Oliveira et al., 2021: 23 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

Zacryptocerus ustus

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. 1973c. A new Zacryptocerus from Brazil, with remarks on the generic classification of the tribe Cephalotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 16:449-462. PDF
Oliveira, A. M.; Powell, S.; Feitosa, R. M. 2021. A taxonomic study of the Brazilian turtle ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Cephalotes). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 65 (3):52 pp. e20210028. [online early] 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2021-0028 PDF

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