Pachycondyla transversa

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Pachycondyla transversa Emery, 1890 junior synonym of current valid taxon Pachycondyla impressa (Roger, 1861)

Pachycondyla fuscoatra r. transversa Emery, 1890b: 58 (in text) (w.q.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393). Primary type locality: Costa Rica: (no further data in original description). Primary type depository: MSNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0903887 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MSNG. Type notes: 1) In the original description Emery, 1890b also mentions a queen. 2) Type locality: lectotype Costa Rica: Alajuela, Juan Viñas, 1889 (A. Alfaro) (data from Emery, 1890c: 42, repeated in MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393); paralectotypes with same data. 3) MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393, cite a lectotype worker but the specimen labelled lectotype (CASENT0903887) in MSNG is a dealate queen, confirmed by Marcineiro & Lattke, 2024: 31.

Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393.
[Also described as new by Emery, 1890c: 42; Emery, 1894l: 48.]
Forel, 1908c: 38 (q.)
Combination in Pachycondyla (Pachycondyla): Emery, 1901b: 45.
Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 35.
Subspecies of Pachycondyla fuscoatra: Emery, 1893m: 34 (footnote); Forel, 1908c: 38; Forel, 1908c: 38; Emery, 1911e: 74; Forel, 1914e: 10.
Junior synonym of Pachycondyla impressa: Kempf, 1961e: 195; Kempf, 1972b: 174; Bolton, 1995b: 311; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 393; Marcineiro & Lattke, 2024: 31.

Obsolete combinations

Pachycondyla fuscoatra transversa

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1890b. Voyage de M. E. Simon au Venezuela (Décembre 1887 - Avril 1888). Formicides. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6)10:55-76. PDF
Emery, C. 1890c. Studii sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 22:38-80. PDF
Emery, C. 1893m. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in various genera attributed to Emery.]. Pp. 4-266 in: Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. 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. 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
Forel, A. 1908c. Fourmis de Costa-Rica récoltées par M. Paul Biolley. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 44:35-72. PDF
Forel, A. 1914e. Quelques fourmis de Colombie. Pp. 9-14 in: Fuhrmann, O.; Mayor, E. 1914. Voyage d'exploration scientifique en Colombie. Mémoires de la Société Neuchâteloise des Sciences Naturelles 5(2):1-1090. 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

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