Novomessor cockerelli minor

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Novomessor cockerelli minor Enzmann, 1947 junior synonym of current valid taxon Novomessor albisetosus (Mayr, 1886)

Novomessor cockerelli var. minor Enzmann, 1947b: 148, pl. 8 (w.) U.S.A. (Texas). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Texas, Corpus Christi, no. 11 (J. Enzmann). Primary type depository: unknown. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paratype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: unknown. Type notes: 1) Enzmann, 1947b says the holotype is “in my collection” (depositories of paratypes are not mentioned); whereabouts unknown, presumed lost. 2) For a comprehensive criticism of this taxon see Creighton, 1950a: 156.

Junior synonym of Novomessor albisetosus: Brown, 1949a: 49; Creighton, 1950a: 156; Smith, 1951c: 799; Smith, 1979: 1360; Bolton, 1995b: 71; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 445.

Obsolete combinations

Aphaenogaster cockerelli minor

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949a. Synonymic and other notes on Formicidae (Hymenoptera). Psyche (Cambridge) 56:41-49. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Enzmann, J. 1947b. New forms of Aphaenogaster and Novomessor. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 55:147-152. PDF
Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
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. 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

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