Linepithema humile
(Mayr, 1868)
valid
Hypoclinea humilis
Mayr, 1868b:
164 (w.)
ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype (?) worker. Primary type locality: Argentina: Buenos Aires, 1866 (Strobel). Primary type depository: NHMW (perhaps also MNHN).
Type notes:
1) No indication of number of specimens is given. 2) Wild, 2007a: 61, regarded the single specimen in NHMW as holotype, but Chopard, 1921: 238 (footnote) suspected that 2 specimens in MNHN were syntypes.
- Forel, 1908: 395 (m.); Newell, 1908: 28 (q.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1951: 186 (l.); Crozier, 1969a: 250 (k.)
- Combination in Hypoclinea (Iridomyrmex): Mayr, 1870b: 959.
- Combination in Iridomyrmex: Emery, 1888d: 386.
- Combination in Linepithema: Shattuck, 1992a: 16.
- Status as species: Mayr, 1870b: 959 (in key); Emery, 1888c: 362; Dalla Torre, 1893: 169; von Jhering, 1894: 378; Forel, 1895b: 110; Forel, 1901m: 81; Emery, 1906c: 177; Forel, 1908: 394; Wheeler, 1910a: 569; Santschi, 1912e: 533; Forel, 1912i: 46; Emery, 1913a: 26; Forel, 1913k: 223; Forel, 1913m: 242; Forel, 1914e: 12; Bruch, 1914: 226; Arnold, 1915: 145 (redescription); Bruch, 1915: 534; Donisthorpe, 1915f: 342; Gallardo, 1915: 23; Gallardo, 1916b: 97; Santschi, 1916e: 390; Stitz, 1917: 347; Luederwaldt, 1918: 47; Wheeler, 1922: 921; Borgmeier, 1923: 87; Stärcke, 1926a: 117 (in key); Essig, 1926: 864; Donisthorpe, 1927a: 7; Donisthorpe, 1927c: 394; Wheeler, 1927g: 113; Menozzi, 1929b: 4; Wheeler, 1932a: 12; Santschi, 1933a: 22; Santschi, 1934d: 280; Eidmann, 1936b: 88; Novák & Sadil, 1941: 97 (in key); Grandi, 1935: 102; Donisthorpe, 1950a: 339; Creighton, 1950a: 341; Schmitz, 1950: 14; Smith, 1951c: 836; Kusnezov, 1953c: 339; Wellenius, 1955: 12; Bernard, 1956b: 260; Ceballos, 1956: 309; Smith, 1958c: 140; Baroni Urbani, 1964b: 57; Bernard, 1967a: 251 (redescription); Smith, 1967a: 364; Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 79; Yarrow, 1967: 29; Baroni Urbani, 1968e: 474; Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 75; Kempf, 1970a: 26; Baroni Urbani, 1971c: 166; Kempf, 1972b: 124; Baroni Urbani, 1974a: 236; Bolton & Collingwood, 1975: 7 (in key); Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Pisarski, 1975: 27; Snelling & Hunt, 1975: 84; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 548 (in key); Báez & Ortega, 1978: 189; Collingwood, 1978: 87 (in key); Collingwood, 1979: 33; Smith, 1979: 1418; Snelling & George, 1979: 160; Barquín, 1981: 343; Schembri & Collingwood, 1981: 420; Allred, 1982: 478; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 56; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 278 (in key); Taylor, 1987a: 32; Ward, 1987: 1; Zolessi et al., 1988: 7; Deyrup et al., 1989: 99; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1990a: 465; Hohmann et al., 1993: 159; Shattuck, 1994: 123; Douwes, 1995: 91; Bolton, 1995b: 247; Mei, 1995: 767; Poldi et al., 1995: 6; Collingwood et al., 1997: 509; Espadaler, 1997g: 27; Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 20 (in key); Deyrup et al., 2000: 300; Czechowski et al., 2002: 16; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 260; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Imai et al., 2003: 83; Wetterer & Wetterer, 2004: 215; Wild, 2004: 1207 (redescription); Coovert, 2005: 106; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 64; Radchenko, 2005b: 155; Ward, 2005: 26; Cagniant, 2006: 194; Gómez & Espadaler, 2006: 227; Petrov, 2006: 102 (in key); Seifert, 2007: 254; Don, 2007: 161; Wetterer et al., 2007: 31; Wetterer et al., 2007: 12; Wild, 2007a: 61 (redescription); Wild, 2007b: 25; Heterick, 2009: 57; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 478; Wetterer et al., 2009: 187; Solis et al., 2010: 19; Lapeva-Gjonova et al., 2010: 33; Boer, 2010: 14; Collingwood et al., 2011: 415; Borowiec & Salata, 2012: 510; Czechowski et al., 2012: 70; Borowiec & Salata, 2013: 358; Borowiec, 2014: 100; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 109; Escárraga & Guerrero, 2016: 451; Lebas et al., 2016: 112; Radchenko, 2016: 84; Deyrup, 2017: 172; Steiner et al., 2017: 12; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 46; Seifert, 2018: 241; Dekoninck et al., 2019: 1154; Guerrero, 2019: 714.
- Senior synonym of Linepithema humile arrogans: Bernard, 1967a: 251; Wild, 2004: 1207; Wild, 2007a: 61; Casevitz-Weulersse & Galkowski, 2009: 478; Radchenko, 2016: 84.
- Senior synonym of Linepithema riograndensis: Wild, 2004: 1207; Wild, 2007a: 61; Radchenko, 2016: 84.
Junior synonyms
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Linepithema humile arrogans
(Chopard, 1921)
Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex humilis arrogans
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Linepithema riograndensis
(Borgmeier, 1928)
Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex riograndensis
Obsolete combinations
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