Cephalotes atratus quadridens

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Cephalotes atratus quadridens (De Geer, 1773) junior synonym of current valid taxon Cephalotes atratus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Formica quadridens De Geer, 1773: 609, pl. 31, figs. 17-20 (w.) SURINAME. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Suriname: (no further data) (Rolander). Primary type depository: unknown (perhaps MNHN). Type notes: According to Horn & Kahle, 1935: 52, De Geer’s material is in NHRS.

Combination in Cryptocerus: Fabricius, 1804: 419.
Combination in Cephalotes: Santschi, 1919f: 44
Status as species: Fabricius, 1804: 419; Santschi, 1919f: 44.
Subspecies of Cephalotes atratus: Santschi, 1920f: 149; Forel, 1922b: 97; Borgmeier, 1927c: 115; Santschi, 1939f: 163.
Junior synonym of Cephalotes atratus: Retzius, 1783: 76; Latreille, 1802a: 272; Fabricius, 1804: 419; Latreille, 1817a: 526; Klug, 1824: 200; Smith, 1853: 215; Smith, 1858a: 188; Mayr, 1863a: 405; Roger, 1863b: 38; Mayr, 1865: 114; Dalla Torre, 1893: 141; Forel, 1895b: 133; Forel, 1899b: 48; Wheeler, 1908a: 144; Emery, 1924f: 303; Borgmeier, 1927c: 114; Kempf, 1951: 115; Kempf, 1958a: 10; Kempf, 1972b: 75; Bolton, 1995b: 141; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 111; Oliveira et al., 2021: 19 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

Infrasubspecies

C. a. q. dehnowi Forel, 1922
C. a. q. erectus Santschi, 1920

Citations

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