Eurhopalothrix lenkoi

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Eurhopalothrix lenkoi Kempf, 1967 valid

Eurhopalothrix lenkoi Kempf, 1967d: 358, figs. 6, 7 (w.q.) BRAZIL (São Paulo). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: São Paulo, Caraguatatuba, State Forest Reserve, 40 m., 7-14.vii.1962, no. 2183 (K. Lenko). Primary type depository: MZSP. Primary type specimen: MZSP0085643. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 50 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen. Secondary type localities: 6 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype, 44 paratype workers Brazil: São Paulo, Ilha das Cabras, nr Ilha da Vitória, 25 km. offshore of Ubatuba, 26.iii.1964, no. 4031 (K. Lenko). Secondary type depositories: DZSP, MZSP. Secondary type specimens: MZSP0085644, MZSP0085645, MZSP0085646, MZSP0085647, MZSP0085648, MZSP0085649, MZSP0085650, MZSP0085651, MZSP0085652. Type notes: Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S1, cite holotype worker, 32 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen in MZSP.

Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 108; Kempf, 1975c: 371; Brandão, 1991: 344; Bolton, 1995b: 189; Ketterl et al., 2004: 48 (in key); Longino, 2013a: 125; Chaul, 2022: 7 (in key).

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
Chaul, J. C. M. 2022. Redescription of Eurhopalothrix reichenspergeri (Santschi, 1923) stat. rev. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Brazilian Atlantic Forest endemic species. Zootaxa 5182 (1):1-20. 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.1.1 PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1967d. Three new South American ants (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 10:353-360. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1975c. Miscellaneous studies on neotropical ants. VI. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 18:341-380. PDF
Ketterl, J.; Verhaagh, M.; Dietz, B. H. 2004. Eurhopalothrix depressa sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from southern Brazil with a key to the Neotropical taxa of the genus. Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment 39:45-48. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2013a. A review of the Central American and Caribbean species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf, 1961 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to New World species. Zootaxa 3693:101-151. PDF
Ulysséa, M. A.; Santos, S.; Moleiro, H. P.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Camacho, G. P. 2025. The MZSP Ant Type Collection: a complete catalogue and digital resource for global access. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3):blaf034, 17 pp. [online early] 10.1093/biolinnean/blaf034 PDF

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