Temnothorax whitfordi
(Mackay, 2000)
valid
Leptothorax (Myrafant) whitfordi
Mackay, 2000:
421, figs. 65, 67, 188-190 (w.q.m.)
U.S.A. (New Mexico).
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: New Mexico, Eddy County, Guadelupe Mts, 5.3 km. SE Sitting Bull Falls, 32°12’15’’N, 104°40’23’’W, 1559 m., 31.viii.1997, #17575, 17566 (W. & E. Mackay). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 63 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, CASC, EMAU, FMNH, LACM, MCZC, MHNG, MSNG, MZSP, UCDC, UNAM, USNM, WEMC.
- Combination in Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 272
- Status as species: Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 141; Bolton, 2003: 272; Ward, 2005: 68; Snelling et al., 2014: 80.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Mackay, W. P. 2000. A review of the New World ants of the subgenus Myrafant, (genus Leptothorax) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 36:265-444. PDF
- Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2002. The ants of New Mexico (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 400 pp. PDF
- Snelling, R. R.; Borowiec, M. L.; Prebus, M. M. 2014. Studies on California ants: a review of the genus Temnothorax (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 372:27-89. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 936:1-68. PDF