Solenopsis nickersoni

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

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Solenopsis nickersoni Thompson, 1982 valid

Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) nickersoni Thompson, 1982: 486, fig. 1 (w.) U.S.A. (Florida). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Florida, Gainesville Airport, Gainesville, 10.vii.1979 (C.R. Thompson). Primary type depository: FSCG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 192 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: paratype workers with same data as holotype, and paratype workers Florida, Okala (C.R. Thompson), Florida, Apopka (C.R. Thompson), Florida, Myatka State Park (C.R. Thompson). Secondary type depositories: FSCG, LACM, MCZC.

Thompson, 1989: 281 (q.)
Status as species: Thompson, 1989: 271 (in key); Thompson & Johnson, 1989: 697 (in key); Deyrup et al., 1989: 96; Brandão, 1991: 378; Bolton, 1995b: 389; Deyrup, 2003: 47; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 238 (redescription); Deyrup, 2017: 109.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
Deyrup, M. 2003. An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 86:43-48. PDF
Deyrup, M. 2017. Ants of Florida. Identification and natural history. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis group), 423 pp.
Deyrup, M.; Johnson, C.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989. A preliminary list of the ants of Florida. Florida Entomologist 72:91-101. PDF
Pacheco, J. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 501 pp. PDF
Thompson, C. R. 1982. A new Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) species from Florida (Hym.: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 55:485-488. PDF
Thompson, C. R. 1989. The thief ants, Solenopsis molesta group, of Florida (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 72:268-283. PDF
Thompson, C. R.; Johnson, C. 1989. Rediscovered species and revised key to the Florida thief ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 72:697-698. PDF

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