Xerolitor explicatus

Xerolitor explicatus (Kempf, 1968) valid

Mycetosoritis explicata Kempf, 1968b: 401, figs. 14-16 (w.) BRAZIL (Goiás). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Brazil: Goiás State, savanna S Anápolis, nr km. 46 on Goiânia-Brasília Highway, 15.iii.1968, WWK 4858 (W.W. Kempf). Type-depository: MZSP. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 1 paratype worker. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype. Paratype-depository: unknown.

Sosa-Calvo et al., 2009: 114 (q.); Sosa-Calvo et al., 2018: 557 (m.l.)
Combination in Xerolitor: Sosa-Calvo et al., 2018: 555.
Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 146; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Wild, 2007b: 33; Sosa-Calvo et al., 2009: 116 (redescription); Sosa-Calvo et al., 2018: 556 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Mycetosoritis explicata

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1968b. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. IV. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 11:369-415. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Sosa-Calvo, J.; Brady, S. G.; Schultz, T. R. 2009. The gyne of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant species Mycetosoritis explicata. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18:113-120. PDF
Sosa-Calvo, J.; Schultz, T. R.; Ješovnik, A.; Dahan, R. A.; Rabeling, C. 2018. Evolution, systematics, and natural history of a new genus of cryptobiotic fungus‐growing ants. Systematic Entomology 43:549-567. 10.1111/syen.12289 PDF
Wild, A. L. 2007b. A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1622:1-55. PDF

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