Formica armigera
Latreille, 1802a:
244, pl. 9, fig. 58 (w.)
BRAZIL.
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype? workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data) (“collection du Stathouder”). Primary type depository: MNHN ? (not confirmed).
- Smith, 1853: 226 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955a: 122 (l.)
- Combination in Atta: Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 421.
- Combination in Daceton: Perty, 1833: 136; Smith, 1853: 226.
- Status as species: Perty, 1833: 136; Guérin-Méneville, 1844a: 421; Smith, 1853: 226; Smith, 1858a: 160; Roger, 1862c: 290; Roger, 1863b: 40; Mayr, 1884: 38; Mayr, 1886c: 360; Dalla Torre, 1893: 149; Emery, 1894d: 140; Forel, 1895b: 136; Forel, 1907h: 3; Crawley, 1916b: 372; Mann, 1916: 452; Wheeler, 1916c: 9; Wheeler, 1923a: 4; Emery, 1924f: 316; Borgmeier, 1927c: 120; Borgmeier, 1934: 103; Kempf, 1961b: 514; Wilson, 1962b: 403; Kempf, 1970b: 335; Kempf, 1972b: 95; Bolton, 1995b: 168; Gronenberg, 1996: 2012; Bolton, 1999: 1655; Bolton, 2000: 18; Azorsa & Sosa-Calvo, 2008: 30; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2010: 39 (in key); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 117; Fernández & Serna, 2019: 851.
- Senior synonym of Daceton cordata: Roger, 1862c: 290; Mayr, 1863a: 406; Roger, 1863b: 40; Dalla Torre, 1893: 149; Forel, 1895b: 136; Emery, 1924f: 317; Borgmeier, 1927c: 120; Kempf, 1972b: 95; Bolton, 1995b: 168.
- [Note: Mayr, 1863a: 406, gives Daceton cordata as senior synonym, but Daceton armigerum has priority (Roger, 1863b: 40).]
Junior synonyms
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Daceton cordata
(Fabricius, 1804)
Obsolete combination(s): Myrmecia cordata
Obsolete combinations
Citations
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- Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 33:1639-1689. PDF
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
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