Protonym: Hylomyrma virginiae
Authorship Ulysséa, 2021: 123, figs. 77, 78, 80D, 89
Forms w.q.
Bioregion Neotropic
Locality ECUADOR
Etymology The epithet virginiae is a Latin noun in the genitive case created by adding the singular Latin genitive case suffix -e to the first name of a female person. This species is named in honor of Virginia Leone Bicudo (1910–2003).
Primary type information Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Ecuador: Napo, Limoncocha, 250m, 25.vi.1976, B-355 (S. & J. Peck). Primary type depository: MCZC. Primary type specimen: MCZENT00524688.
Secondary type information Secondary type material: 18 paratype workers, 3 paratype queens. Secondary type localities: 11 paratype workers with same data as holotype; 5 paratype workers, 1 paratype queen with same data as holotype except 18.vi.1976, B-348; 1 paratype worker with same data as holotype except 20km S of Tena, 600m, 11.vii.1976, B360 (S. & J. Peck); 1 paratype worker Ecuador: Pichincha, Centr. Cient. R. Palenque, 20.xii.1980, Bosque primario cerrado, 584 (Sonia Sandoval); 1 paratype queen Ecuador: Los Rios, C.C.R. Palenque, 79°45′10″W, 01°25′56″S, 02MAR1979 (S. Sandoval); 1 paratype queen Ecuador: Pastaza, 22km SW Puyo, 15.vii.1976, B-362 (S. & J. Peck). Secondary type depositories: CASC, DZUP, IHVL, MCZC, MZSP, QCAZ, USNM. Secondary type specimens: MCZENT00525482, MCZENT00524689, MCZENT00524690, MCZENT00525503, MCZENT00525523, MCZENT00525522 (MZSP67462), MCZENT00525518 (MZHY196), MCZENT00525524, MCZENT00525517, MCZENT00525521, MCZENT00525519, MCZENT00525501, MCZENT00524677, MCZENT00524676, MCZENT00525499, MCZENT00525506 (MZSP67463), MCZENT00524678 (MZSP67464), MCZENT00525490, MCZENT00524681, QCAZ I 114012.
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