Protonym: Cephalotes monicaulyssea
Authorship Oliveira et al., 2021: 14, figs. 12a-c, 13a-c, 14a-c, 16
Forms w.s.q.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality BRAZIL (Minas Gerais)
Etymology This species is named, in apposition, after Mônica Antunes Ulysséa, a Brazilian myrmecologist, poetess, activist, and agroecologist, for her contribution to the knowledge of Neotropical ants, especially the taxonomy of Myrmicinae.
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: MG, Santana do Riacho, Serra do Cipó, 1267m, -19.294090 -43.587950, 25.vii.2018, Campo rupestre [rupestrian grassland] (Vellozia), C18-32 (S. Powell). Primary type depository: DZUP. Primary type specimen: DZUP 550180.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 7 paratype workers, 3 paratype soldiers, 3 paratype queens. Secondary type localities: 3 paratype workers, 2 paratype soldiers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype; 1 paratype worker, 1 paratype soldier with same data as holotype but -19.29370 -43.588160, 13.viii.2017; 3 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens with same data as holotype but 1258m, -19.294040 -43.587760, 17.vii.2019, Humiria balsamifera, C19-27. Secondary type depositories: DZUP, MZSP, USNM. Secondary type specimens: DZUP 550181, DZUP 550182, DZUP 550186, DZUP 550183, DZUP 550184, DZUP 550185.
Taxa belonging to this protonym
Cephalotes monicaulyssea Species Valid Original combination