Megalomyrmex emeryi

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Megalomyrmex emeryi Forel, 1904 valid

Megalomyrmex emeryi Forel, 1904e: 174 (w.) SURINAME. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Suriname: (no further data) (coll. Ballion, ex-coll. Puls). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MRHN. Type notes: Brandão, 1990b: 433, 434, records a unique holotype, but in the original description Forel gives worker measurements of 8.0-8.5 mm., which implies more than one specimen.

Brandão, 1990b: 434 (m.)
Status as species: Wheeler, 1909b: 237 (in key); Emery, 1922c: 190; Wheeler, 1925a: 34 (in key); Ettershank, 1966: 105; Kempf, 1972b: 139; Brandão, 1990b: 433 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 355; Bolton, 1995b: 249; Brandão, 2003b: 152; Guénard & Economo, 2015: 227.

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. 1990b. Systematic revision of the Neotropical ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), with the description of thirteen new species. Arquivos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 31:411-481. PDF
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
Brandão, C. R. F. 2003b. Further revisionary studies on the ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 43:145-159. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Forel, A. 1904e. Fourmis du Musée de Bruxelles. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 48:168-177. PDF
Guénard, B.; Economo, E. P. 2015. Additions to the checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Peru. Zootaxa 4040 (2):225-235. 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.2.8
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1909b. Ants collected by Prof. F. Silvestri in Mexico. Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 3:228-238. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1925a. Neotropical ants in the collections of the Royal Museum of Stockholm. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(8):1-55. PDF

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