Ponera ochracea guatemalensis
Forel, 1899
an obsolete combination of Cryptopone guatemalensis (Forel, 1899)
Ponera ochracea r. guatemalensis
Forel, 1899b:
16 (w.)
GUATEMALA.
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: neotype worker (by designation of Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17). Primary type locality: neotype Guatemala: Suchitepéquez, 4 km. S Vol. Atitlán, 14.54800, -91.19369±200 m., 1570 m., 14.vi.2009, #6709, cloud forest, rotten wood (J. Longino). Primary type depository: MHNG.
Type notes:
1) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, say that the lectotype worker earlier designated by MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352, came from Florida, not from either of the original syntype series (Guatemala and Nicaragua), which they say are entirely lost. 2) Original syntype data: workers (number not stated) Guatemala: Aceituno (Champion), and Nicaragua: Chontales (Janson), material lost. 3) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, also nominate as ‘paraneotypes’ (a category not recognised by ICZN), 2 workers, 3 queens, 3 males, in CASC, MCZC, USNM.
Citations
- Branstetter, M. G.; Longino, J. T. 2022. UCE phylogenomics of New World Cryptopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) elucidates genus boundaries, species boundaries, and the vicariant history of a temperate–tropical disjunction. Insect Systematics & Diversity 6(1):6:1-23. 10.1093/isd/ixab031 PDF
- Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
- MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF