| Authorship |
Johnson, 2021:
201, figs. 100B, 101-105
|
| Forms |
w.aq.m. |
| Bioregion |
Neotropic |
| Locality |
ARGENTINA (Chubut) |
| Etymology |
The specific epithet, varicolor (from Latin, varius = different, varying, and color = color), is derived from the variable color patterns displayed by workers of this species, both within and across colonies. |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Argentina: Chubut, Departamento Escalante, Jct Rts 37 & 26, 45º46.8’S, 68º03.8’W, 2380’ (720 m), 19.ii.2014, #5195 (R.A. Johnson). Primary type depository: MACN. Primary type specimen: CASENT0922468. |
| Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: 96 paratype workers, 6 paratype alate queens, 9 paratype males. Secondary type locality: 56 paratype workers, 6 paratype alate queens, 9 paratype males with same data as holotype; 33 paratype workers with same data as holotype but #5196; 7 paratype workers with same data as holotype but #5197. Secondary type depositories: IFML, LACM, MACN, MCZC, RAJC, UCDC, USNM. |
