Myrmelachista costaricensis

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

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Myrmelachista costaricensis Wheeler, 1934 junior synonym of current valid taxon Myrmelachista plebecula Menozzi, 1927

Myrmelachista costaricensis Wheeler, 1934g: 196, fig. 3 (w.m.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 16 syntype workers, 12 syntype males. Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Alajuela, 28.xi.1911 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC.

Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 147; Bolton, 1995b: 276.
Junior synonym of Myrmelachista plebecula: Longino, 2006a: 43.

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
Longino, J. T. 2006a. A taxonomic review of the genus Myrmelachista (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica. Zootaxa 1141:1-54. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1934g. Neotropical ants collected by Dr. Elisabeth Skwarra and others. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:157-240. PDF

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