Pachycondyla fuscoatra cearensis

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Pachycondyla fuscoatra cearensis Forel, 1901 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pachycondyla inca Emery, 1901

Pachycondyla fuscoatra var. cearensis Forel, 1901j: 336 (w.q.) BRAZIL (Ceará). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 400). Type-locality: lectotype Brazil: Ceará, Baturité (M.J. Schmitt). Type-depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 2 paralectotype workers. Paratype-locality: same as for lectotype. Paratype-depository: MHNG. Type notes: Original description also mentions a syntype queen; also MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 400, mention another original syntype worker in MCZC.

Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 400.
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Forel, 1908a: 64.
Subspecies of Pachycondyla fuscoatra: Emery, 1911e: 74; Borgmeier, 1923: 70.
Junior synonym of Pachycondyla impressa: Kempf, 1961e: 195; Kempf, 1972b: 174; Bolton, 1995b: 304.
Junior synonym of Pachycondyla inca: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 400.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24:33-103.
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Forel, A. 1901j. Variétés myrmécologiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:334-382. PDF
Forel, A. 1908a. Catálogo systemático da collecção de formigas do Ceará. Boletim do Museu Rocha 1(1):62-69. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1961e. As formigas do gênero Pachycondyla Fr. Smith no Brasil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 10:189-204. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF

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