Solenopsis pilosula

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

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Solenopsis pilosula Wheeler, 1908 valid

Solenopsis pilosula Wheeler, 1908h: 426, pl. 26, figs. 26, 27 (w.m.) U.S.A. (Texas). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 273). Primary type locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Texas, Alice, 16.vii.1903 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 5 paralectotype workers, 3 paralectotype males. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: LACM, MCZC. Type notes: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013 refer to the LACM specimens as “cotypes”, but as they are from the same series as the lectotype they are paralectotypes.

Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 273.
Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 272 (q.)
Status as species: Wheeler, 1910a: 563; Emery, 1922c: 200; Smith, 1943a: 211 (in key); Creighton, 1950a: 238; Smith, 1951c: 814; Ettershank, 1966: 143; Smith, 1979: 1388; Bolton, 1995b: 390; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 271 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. 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
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.
Smith, M. R. 1943a ("1942"). A new North American Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 45:209-211. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1908h. The ants of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. (Part I.). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:399-485. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF

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