Linepithema impotens

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Linepithema impotens (Santschi, 1923) junior synonym of current valid taxon Linepithema gallardoi (Brèthes, 1914)

Iridomyrmex impotens Santschi, 1923d: 67 (w.) BRAZIL (Santa Catarina). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: holotype Brazil: Blumenau (A. Reichensperger). Primary type depository: NHMB. Type notes: Wild, 2007a: 55, designated the single specimen as lectotype; redundant designation as Santschi, 1923d: 68, had stated that only 1 worker was present.

Combination in Linepithema: Shattuck, 1992a: 16
Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 125; Shattuck, 1994: 124; Bolton, 1995b: 247.
Junior synonym of Linepithema gallardoi: Wild, 2007a: 55

Obsolete combinations

Iridomyrmex impotens

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Santschi, F. 1923d. Pheidole et quelques autres fourmis néotropiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 63:45-69. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1992a. Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:13-18. 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
Wild, A. L. 2007a. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Linepithema (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 126:1-151. PDF

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