Cryptopone guatemalensis

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Cryptopone guatemalensis (Forel, 1899) valid

Ponera ochracea r. guatemalensis Forel, 1899b: 16 (w.) GUATEMALA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17). Primary type locality: neotype Guatemala: Suchitepéquez, 4 km. S Vol. Atitlán, 14.54800, -91.19369±200 m., 1570 m., 14.vi.2009, #6709, cloud forest, rotten wood (J. Longino). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: 1) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, say that the lectotype worker earlier designated by MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352, came from Florida, not from either of the original syntype series (Guatemala and Nicaragua), which they say are entirely lost. 2) Original syntype data: workers (number not stated) Guatemala: Aceituno (Champion), and Nicaragua: Chontales (Janson), material lost. 3) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, also nominate 2 workers, 3 queens, 3 males as ‘paraneotypes’ (a category not recognised by ICZN) in CASC, MCZC, USNM.

Neotype designation: Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17.
Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352 (error, see Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17).
Combination in Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1901b: 46.
Combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Emery, 1911e: 86.
Combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1960f: 424.
Combination in Cryptopone: Brown, 1963a: 6.
Subspecies of Cryptopone ochracea: Emery, 1911e: 86.
Junior synonym of Cryptopone gilva: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352.
Status as species: Brown, 1963a: 6; Kempf, 1972b: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 166; Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17.
Senior synonym of Cryptopone obsoleta: Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17.

Junior synonyms

Cryptopone obsoleta (Menozzi, 1931)
Obsolete combination(s): Euponera obsoleta

Obsolete combinations

Ponera ochracea guatemalensis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Branstetter, M. G.; Longino, J. T. 2022. UCE phylogenomics of New World Cryptopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) elucidates genus boundaries, species boundaries, and the vicariant history of a temperate–tropical disjunction. Insect Systematics & Diversity 6(1):6:1-23. 10.1093/isd/ixab031 PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1963a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora 190:1-10. PDF
Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1960f. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:417-466. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF

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