Patagonomyrmex laevigatus

Patagonomyrmex laevigatus (Santschi, 1921) valid

Pogonomyrmex (Ephebomyrmex) laevigatus Santschi, 1921g: 97 (w.) CHILE. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Johnson & Moreau, 2016: 17). Primary type locality: lectotype Chile: Llanqihue Prov., Cayutué (Wolffhügel). Primary type depository: MACN. Primary type specimen: CASENT0217258 (lectotype). Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 6 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MACN, ZSBS. Type notes: Original syntypes are probably also in NHMB.

Lectotype designation: Johnson & Moreau, 2016: 17.
Kusnezov, 1949c: 301 (m., in key); Johnson & Moreau, 2016: 18 (q.)
Combination in Ephebomyrmex: Kusnezov, 1960b: 354.
Combination in Pogonomyrmex: Snelling & Hunt, 1976: 75.
Combination in Patagonomyrmex: Johnson & Moreau, 2016: 17.
Status as species: Menozzi, 1935c: 320; Goetsch & Menozzi, 1935: 95; Kusnezov, 1949c: 297; Kusnezov, 1951e: 249; Kusnezov, 1953b: 109 (in key); Kusnezov, 1960b: 354; Kempf, 1970a: 22; Kempf, 1972b: 106; Snelling & Hunt, 1976: 75; Bolton, 1995b: 340; Taber, 1998: 146 (in key); Cuezzo & Claver, 2009: 100 (in key); Johnson & Moreau, 2016: 17 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Pogonomyrmex laevigatus

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Cuezzo, F.; Claver, S. 2009. Two new species of the ant genus Pogonomyrmex (Hmyenoptera: Formicidae) from Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 68:97-106. PDF
Goetsch, W.; Menozzi, C. 1935. Die Ameisen Chiles. Konowia 14:94-102. PDF
Johnson, R. A.; Moreau, C. S. 2016. A new ant genus from southern Argentina and southern Chile, Patagonomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4139:1-31. 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.1.1 PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1970a. Catálogo das formigas do Chile. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 23:17-43. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1949c. Pogonomyrmex del grupo Ephebomyrmex en la fauna de la Patagonia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 8:291-307. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1951e. El género Pogonomyrmex Mayr (Hym., Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 11:227-333. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1953b. Las hormigas en los Parques Nacionales de la Patagonia y los problemas relacionados. Anales del Museo Nahuel Huapí 3:105-124. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1960b ("1959"). La fauna de hormigas en el oeste de la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 17:321-401. PDF
Menozzi, C. 1935c. Fauna Chilensis. II. (Nach Sammlungen von W. Goetsch). Le formiche del Cile. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere 67:319-336. PDF
Santschi, F. 1921g. Ponerinae, Dorylinae et quelques autres formicides néotropiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 54:81-103. PDF
Snelling, R. R.; Hunt, J. H. 1976 ("1975"). The ants of Chile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Chilena de Entomología 9:63-129. PDF
Taber, S. W. 1998. The world of harvester ants. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, xvii + 213 pp. PDF

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