Sericomyrmex diego

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

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Sericomyrmex diego Forel, 1912 junior synonym of current valid taxon Sericomyrmex opacus Mayr, 1865

Sericomyrmex diego Forel, 1912f: 192 (w.m.) COLOMBIA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Don Diego, 3.iii.1896 (A. Forel). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MHNG, MSNG, USNM, MZSP. Primary type specimens: CASENT0901678, CASENT0904988, CASENT0909369, FOCOL2194.

Status as species: Wheeler, 1916c: 11 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 339; Kempf, 1972b: 229; Bolton, 1995b: 382.
Junior synonym of Sericomyrmex opacus: Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 72

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Forel, A. 1912f. Formicides néotropiques. Part II. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae Lep. (Attini, Dacetii, Cryptocerini). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 19:179-209. PDF
Ješovnik, A.; Schultz, T. R. 2017a. Revision of the fungus-farming ant genus Sericomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). ZooKeys 670:1-109. 10.3897/zookeys.670.11839 PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1916c. Ants collected in British Guiana by the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during 1911. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35:1-14. PDF

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