Pseudomyrmex sericeus acaciarum

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Pseudomyrmex sericeus acaciarum (Wheeler, 1942) junior synonym of current valid taxon Pseudomyrmex ita (Forel, 1906)

Pseudomyrma sericea var. acaciarum Wheeler, 1942: 176 (w.q.m.) PANAMA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “several colonies”). Primary type locality: Panama: Tumba Muerta Road, nr Las Sabanas (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: LACM, MCZC.

Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1972b: 223
Subspecies of Pseudomyrmex sericeus: Kempf, 1972b: 223.
Junior synonym of Pseudomyrmex ita: Ward, 1993: 158; Bolton, 1995b: 370; Ward, 1999b: 523.

Obsolete combinations

Pseudomyrma sericea acaciarum

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Ward, P. S. 1993. Systematic studies on Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2:117-168. PDF
Ward, P. S. 1999b. Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhabiting ants. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 126:451-540. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

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