Mycocepurus smithii borinquenensis

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

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Mycocepurus smithii borinquenensis (Wheeler, 1907) junior synonym of current valid taxon Mycocepurus smithii (Forel, 1893)

Atta (Mycocepurus) smithi var. borinquenensis Wheeler, 1907d: 718 (w.) PUERTO RICO. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Puerto Rico: Vega Baja, Arecibo, Utuado, and Monte Mandios (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC (perhaps also UFRRJ). Type notes: Previously cited as being in MZSP by Klingenberg & Brandão, 2005: 46, but not found by Ulysséa et al., 2025: 12. Possibly in UFRRJ.

Combination in Mycocepurus: Emery, 1924f: 335.
Subspecies of Mycocepurus smithii: Wheeler, 1908a: 149; Wheeler, 1913b: 495; Emery, 1924f: 335; Weber, 1934a: 56; Smith, 1937: 860; Alayo, 1974: 41.
Junior synonym of Mycocepurus smithii: Kempf, 1963b: 425; Kempf, 1972b: 147; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Mackay et al., 2004: 5.

Obsolete combinations

Atta smithii borinquenensis

Citations

Alayo, P. 1974. Introducción al estudio de los Himenópteros de Cuba. Superfamilia Formicoidea. Serie Biológica. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 53:1-58. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Kempf, W. W. 1963b. A review of the ant genus Mycocepurus Forel, 1893 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 6:417-432. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Klingenberg, C.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2005. The type specimens of fungus growing ants, Attini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 45:41-50. PDF
Mackay, W. P.; Maes, J.-M.; Rojas Fernández, P.; Luna, G. 2004. The ants of North and Central America: the genus Mycocepurus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science 4 (27):7 pp. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1937 ("1936"). The ants of Puerto Rico. Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 20:819-875. 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
Weber, N. A. 1934a. Notes on neotropical ants, including the descriptions of new forms. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 4:22-59. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1907d. The fungus-growing ants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:669-807. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1908a. The ants of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:117-158. PDF
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