Solenopsis invicta

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Solenopsis invicta Buren, 1972 valid

Solenopsis invica [sic] Buren, 1972: 9, fig. 2 (w.q.m.) The misspelling invica occurs in the title of the species, but the name is spelled correctly, invicta, on previous pages 1-8, as well as on subsequent pages and in figure captions. BRAZIL (Mato Grosso). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, 16.ii.1971 (W. Whitcomb & R. Williams). Primary type depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type localities: paratypes: workers “numerous” with same data as holotype, workers “several additional colonies”, ii.1971 (W. Whitcomb & R. Williams), 10 paratype workers Mato Grosso, Chapada (no collector’s name), paratype workers (number not stated) U.S.A.: Alabama, Daphne (W.F. Buren), Alabama, nr Mobile (W.F. Buren). Secondary type depositories: FSCG, MCZC, UGAA, USNM.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977a: 588 (l.)
Junior synonym of Solenopsis wagneri: Bolton, 1995b: 388
[Note: Trager, 1991: 173, cited Solenopsis wagneri as an unavailable (infrasubspecific) name, but the name was available and had priority over Solenopsis invicta (see under Solenopsis wagneri). Solenopsis invicta was later conserved over Solenopsis wagneri because of usage, in accord with ICZN (1999): Shattuck et al., 1999: 27.]
Status as species: Rhoades, 1977: 1; Smith, 1979: 1386; Deyrup et al., 1989: 96; Brandão, 1991: 378; Trager, 1991: 173 (redescription); Deyrup et al., 2000: 298; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 229; Deyrup, 2003: 47; MacGown & Forster, 2005: 70; Ward, 2005: 36; Wild, 2007b: 36; Don, 2007: 198; Terayama, 2009: 157; Guénard & Dunn, 2012: 53; Wetterer, 2013c: 50; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 122; Deyrup, 2017: 105; Pitts et al., 2018: 343 (redescription).

Junior synonyms

Solenopsis wagneri Santschi, 1916
Obsolete combination(s): Solenopsis saevissima wagneri

Citations

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Deyrup, M.; Johnson, C.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989. A preliminary list of the ants of Florida. Florida Entomologist 72:91-101. PDF
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Guénard, B.; Dunn, R. R. 2012. A checklist of the ants of China. Zootaxa 3358:1-77. PDF
MacGown, J. A.; Forster, J. A. 2005. A preliminary list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Alabama, U. S. A. Entomological News 116:61-74. PDF
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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.
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Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1977a. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 103:581-602. PDF
Wild, A. L. 2007b. A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1622:1-55. PDF

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