Temnothorax politus
(Smith, 1939)
valid
Macromischa polita
Smith, 1939e:
506, pl. 1, fig. B (w.)
U.S.A. (Arizona).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Prebus, 2021b: 423). Type-locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Arizona, 6.5 km up Santa Cruz River from Tucson, 13.ix.1938, M.C.Z. cotype 23781 (R.G. Wesson). Type-depository: MCZC. Type-specimen: MCZENT00023781 (lectotype; top specimen on pin). (Source: Prebus, 2021b: 423.)
Secondary type information:
Paratype-material: 7 paratype workers. Paratype-localities: 1 paratype worker with same data as lectotype (on same pin as lectotype); 3 paratype workers with same data as lectotype, except Sabino Canyon, 8.x.1938, 945 m, #I03 I (R.G. Wesson), one worker No. 53249 U.S.N.M. Cotype, USNMENT00528925, one worker No. 53249 U.S.N.M. Cotype, USNMENT00922558; 1 paratype worker with same data as lectotype, except Wof Baboquivari Peak, 50 km E of Sells, 25.ix.1938, 1070–1220 m, #I30k, No. 53249 U.S.N.M. Cotype (R.G. Wesson); 2 paratype workers with same data as lectotype, except Catalina Mountains, 11.ix.1938, 1370 m, #24j, No. 53249 U.S.N.M. Cotype (R.G. Wesson). Paratype-depositories and specimens: MCZC: MCZENT00023781 (bottom specimen on same pin as lectotype); LACM: LACMENT323200; USNM: USNMENT00528925, USNMENT00922558, USNMENT00922559, CASENT0105625. (Source: Prebus, 2021b: 423.)
Type notes:
Originally described from 26 workers from Arizona, all collected by R.G. Wesson and distributed as follows: Catalina Mts (2), Santa Cruz River, 4 mi. from Tucson (4), Phoenix (5), Florence (2), 30 mi. E Sells (1), Sabino Canyon (7), 8 mi. E Tucson (3), 5 mi. N Tucson (1), by the Riollito a little N Tucson (1).
- Lectotype designation: Prebus, 2021b: 423.
- Prebus, 2021b: 426 (q.)
- Combination in Leptothorax (Macromischa): Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 478.
- Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 272.
- Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 252; Smith, 1951c: 816; Hunt & Snelling, 1975: 22; Smith, 1979: 1390; Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 478 (redescription); Bolton, 1995b: 243; Bolton, 2003: 272; Prebus, 2021b: 37 (in key), 422 (diagnosis, redescription).
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1978b. Materiali per una revisione dei Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomologica Basiliensia 3:395-618. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- Hunt, J. H.; Snelling, R. R. 1975. A checklist of the ants of Arizona. Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science 10:20-23. PDF
- Prebus, M. M. 2021b. Taxonomic revision of the Temnothorax salvini clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a key to the clades of New World Temnothorax. PeerJ 9:462 pp. e11514. 10.7717/peerj.11514 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. 1939e. Ants of the genus Macromischa Roger in the United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 32:502-509. 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