| Authorship |
Ulysséa, 2021:
68, figs. 46, 47, 86
|
| Forms |
w.q. |
| Bioregion |
Neotropic |
| Locality |
COLOMBIA |
| Etymology |
The epithet macielae is a Latin noun in the genitive case created by adding the singular Latin genitive case suffix -ae to the middle name of a female person. The specific epithet is named after Miraildes Maciel Mota, a black Brazilian woman and footballer, popularly known as “Formiga” (= ant in Portuguese). |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Colombia: Nariño: Orito, Territorio Kofan, 00°30′N, 77°13′W, 1000m, 25.ix.1998, winkler 3 (E.L. González). Primary type depository: IHVL. |
| Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: 13 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens. Secondary type localities: 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype; 1 paratype worker with same data as holotype except winkler 6; 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype except 1430m, 23.ix.1998, winkler 1; 12 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen Ecuador: Pastaza, 22km SW Puyo, 15.vii.1976, B-362 (S. & J. Peck). Secondary type depositories: CASC, DZUP, IHVL, MCZC, MZSP, USNM. Secondary type specimen: MCZENT00524682 to MCZENT00524684, MCZENT00525507 to MCZENT00525516, MZHY208, MZSP67387, MZSP67390. |
