Temnothorax skwarrae
(Wheeler, 1931)
valid
Macromischa skwarrae
Wheeler, 1931b:
10 (w.q.)
MEXICO (Morelos).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Prebus, 2021b: 170). Primary type locality: lectotype Mexico: Morelos, Cuernavaca, 26.vi.1929, in Tillandsia circinnata (E. Skwarra). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: MCZENT00016358.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers, 1 paralectotype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC, USNM. Secondary type specimens: MCZENT00577117 (MCZC; dealate queen); FoCol0411 (SMND; worker), FoCol0412 (SMND; teneral worker); USNMENT00532047 (USNM; worker/s).
Type notes:
1) Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 504, records as syntypes 16 workers, 1 queen. 2) Prebus, 2021b: 170, also records a depository SMND, which is not represented in his list of depositories (pp. 10-11).
- Lectotype designation: Prebus, 2021b: 170.
- Combination in Leptothorax (Macromischa): Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 503.
- Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 272.
- Status as species: Wheeler, 1937b: 465; Kempf, 1972b: 138; Baroni Urbani, 1978b: 503 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 353; Bolton, 1995b: 244; Bolton, 2003: 272; Prebus, 2021b: 66 (in key), 69 (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
- Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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
- Wheeler, W. M. 1931b. New and little-known ants of the genera Macromischa, Creosomyrmex and Antillaemyrmex. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72:1-34. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1937b. Ants mostly from the mountains of Cuba. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 81:439-465. PDF