Mycocepurus tardus

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Mycocepurus tardus Weber, 1940 valid

Mycocepurus tardus Weber, 1940b: 416, fig. 13 (w.) PANAMA (Barro Colorado). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Kempf, 1963b: 430). Primary type locality: Panama: Canal Zone, Barro Colorado I., 12.vi.1938, and 14.vi.1938 (N.A. Weber). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: Original description cites 5 worker syntypes.

Lectotype designation: Kempf, 1963b: 43o.
Status as species: Weber, 1941b: 108; Kempf, 1963b: 430 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 147; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Mackay et al., 2004: 6; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 118.

Citations

Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
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
Weber, N. A. 1940b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VI. Key to Cyphomyrmex, new Attini and a new guest ant. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 11:406-427. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1941b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VII. The Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, species. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 12:93-130. PDF

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