Neivamyrmex alfaroi

Neivamyrmex alfaroi (Emery, 1890) valid

Eciton alfaroi Emery, 1890c: 39 (w.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Costa Rica: San José, 1889 (A. Alfaro). Primary type depositories: MSNG, MZSP. Primary type specimen: CASENT0903727. Type notes: 1) One syntype worker at MZSP is pointed with a queen, not part of the type series.

[Also described as new by Emery, 1894l: 45.]
Borgmeier, 1949: 202 (q.)
Combination in Eciton (Acamatus): Emery, 1894d: 182 (in text).
Combination in Eciton (Neivamyrmex): Borgmeier, 1949: 201.
Combination in Neivamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 6.
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 1; Emery, 1894d: 183 (in key); Forel, 1899b: 27; Emery, 1910b: 24; Borgmeier, 1939: 414; Borgmeier, 1949: 201; Borgmeier, 1955: 533 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 153; Watkins, 1976: 12 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 287.

Obsolete combinations

Eciton alfaroi

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1939. Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicas (Hym. Formicidae). Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 10:403-428. PDF
Borgmeier, T. 1949. Formigas novas ou pouco conhecidas de Costa Rica e da Argentina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 9:201-210. PDF
Borgmeier, T. 1953. Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der neotropischen Wanderameisen. Studia Entomologica 2:1-51. PDF
Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720. PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1890c. Studii sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 22:38-80. PDF
Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 26:137-241. PDF
Emery, C. 1894l. Estudios sobre las hormigas de Costa Rica. Anales del Museo Nacional de Costa Rica 1888-1889:45-64. PDF
Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102:1-34. PDF
Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Watkins, J. F., II 1976. The identification and distribution of New World army ants (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 102 pp. PDF

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