Pachycondyla harpax irina

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Pachycondyla harpax irina Wheeler, 1925 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pachycondyla impressa (Roger, 1861)

Pachycondyla harpax var. irina Wheeler, 1925a: 5 (w.) GUATEMALA, COSTA RICA, COLOMBIA, GUYANA, PERU. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393). Type-locality: lectotype Guatemala: Quirigua (W.M. Wheeler). Type-depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 1 paralectotype worker. Paratype-locality: paralectotype with same data as lectotype; other original syntypes: Guatemala: Escuintla (W.M. Wheeler), Costa Rica: Cartago (W.M. Wheeler), Colombia: Santa Marta (E.M. Gaige), Guyana: Camaria, nr Kartabo (W.M. Wheeler), Peru: El Campamiento, Perene (J.C. Bradley), Peru: Rio Charape (C.H.T. Townsend), and Peru: Llinquipata (N. Holmgren). Paratype-depository: USNM. Type notes: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 374, 393, mention other original syntypes in AMNH, LACM, MCZC, USNM; probably also present in NHRS.

Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393.
Junior synonym of Pachycondyla harpax: Brown, 1950g: 247; Kempf, 1972b: 174; Smith, 1979: 1340; Bolton, 1995b: 306.
Junior synonym of Pachycondyla impressa: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393
[Note: Pachycondyla harpax irina is entered under the synonymy of Pachycondyla harpax: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 374, and also under the synonymy of Pachycondyla impressa: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393, because of mixed series containing both species. As the lectotype of Pachycondyla harpax irina is listed under Pachycondyla impressa, this name has seniority.]

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1950g. Morphological, taxonomic, and other notes on ants. Wasmann Journal of Biology 8:241-250. 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
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Wheeler, W. M. 1925a. Neotropical ants in the collections of the Royal Museum of Stockholm. Arkiv för Zoologi 17A(8):1-55. PDF

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