Myrmecina americana brevispinosa

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

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Myrmecina americana brevispinosa Creighton, 1950 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmecina americana Emery, 1895

Myrmecina americana subsp. brevispinosa Creighton, 1950a: 249 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (District of Columbia). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated), 1 syntype male. Primary type localities: at least 1 worker, 1 queen U.S.A.: District of Columbia (no collector’s name) (invalid restriction of type locality by Creighton, 1950a: 249; no lectotype designated), 1 worker New York, 1 worker Pennsylvania, 1 worker, 1 queen Carolina, and 1 male with no locality data (no collectors’ names; perhaps T. Pergande). Primary type depositories: MCZC, MNHU, MSNG, USNM.

[First available use of Myrmecina latreillii americana brevispinosa Emery, 1895d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Wheeler, 1901c: 519 (in text); Wheeler, 1904f: 300; Wheeler, 1906g: 2; Wheeler, 1906i: 335; Wheeler, 1908h: 422; Wheeler, 1910a: 562; Wheeler, 1916r: 581; Wheeler, 1917a: 502; Emery, 1924f: 232; Smith, 1930a: 4; Cole, 1937a: 98; Dennis, 1938: 278; Smith, 1948: 239 (footnote).
[Note: material of Myrmecina americana brevispinosa (as an unavailable name) referred to Myrmecina americana by Dennis, 1938: 278; Wesson & Wesson, 1940: 92; Smith, 1951c: 816.]
Subspecies of Myrmecina americana: Creighton, 1950a: 249; Snelling, 1965b: 105 (in key).
Junior synonym of Myrmecina americana: Brown, 1951: 103; Smith, 1951c: 816; Cole, 1953i: 300; Brown, 1967c: 236; Smith, 1979: 1399; Bolton, 1995b: 274; Coovert, 2005: 82.

Citations

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