Pachycondyla purpurascens

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Pachycondyla purpurascens Forel, 1899 valid

Pachycondyla purpurascens Forel, 1899b: 12, pl. 1, fig. 10 (w.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 489). Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Caché (H. Rogers). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0907248 (lectotype). Type notes: Marcineiro & Lattke, 2024: 47, cite a second worker in BMNH with the same data, but exclude it from type material.

Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 489.
MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 491 (q.)
Combination in Pachycondyla (Pachycondyla): Emery, 1901b: 45.
Combination in Pachycondyla: Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014: 155.
Subspecies of Pachycondyla fuscoatra: Emery, 1901b: 45; Emery, 1911e: 75.
Junior synonym of Pachycondyla impressa: Kempf, 1961e: 195; Kempf, 1972b: 174; Bolton, 1995b: 308.
Status as species: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 489 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 124; Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 541; Marcineiro & Lattke, 2024: 47 (redescription).

Citations

Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1901b. Notes sur les sous-familles des Dorylines et Ponérines (Famille des Formicides). Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 45:32-54. PDF
Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118:1-125. PDF
Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J. 2019. Subfamilia Ponerinae. Capítulo 17. Pp. 509-553 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. 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
Marcineiro, F. S. R.; Lattke, J. E. 2024. Review of ant genus Pachycondyla Smith, 1858 in Brazil (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 5461 (1):1-62. 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5461.1.1 PDF
Schmidt, C. A.; Shattuck, S. O. 2014. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a review of ponerine ecology and behavior. Zootaxa 3817 (1):1-242. 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF

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