Forelius keiferi

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Forelius keiferi Wheeler, 1934 valid

Forelius foetidus subsp. keiferi Wheeler, 1934f: 141 (w.q.m.) MEXICO. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated, “numerous”), 4 syntype males. Primary type localities: queens Mexico: Revillagigedo Is, Socorro I., Braithwaite Bay, 10.v.1925 (H.H. Keifer), workers, 4 males Revillagigedo Is, Socorro I., Grayson Cove, 2.v.1925 (H.H. Keifer). Primary type depositories: LACM, MCZC, MHNG, USNM. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 94, cites 6 worker, 6 queen, 1 male syntypes (2w, 1q LACM, 3w, 4q, 1m MCZC, 1w, 1q USNM).

Subspecies of Forelius foetidus: Wheeler, 1935g: 36; Kempf, 1972b: 109.
Subspecies of Forelius mccooki McCook, 1880: Shattuck, 1994: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 190.
Status as species: Cuezzo, 2000: 246 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Forelius foetidus keiferi

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Cuezzo, F. 2000. Revisión del género Forelius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Sociobiology 35:197-275. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. 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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