Allomerus octoarticulatus demerarae

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Allomerus octoarticulatus demerarae Wheeler, 1935 junior synonym of current valid taxon Allomerus octoarticulatus Mayr, 1878

Allomerus octoarticulatus var. demerarae Wheeler, 1935: 92, pls. 7, 8 (l.) GUYANA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated, “many”). Primary type localities: Guyana (“British Guiana”): Kartabo, Kalacoon (W.M. Wheeler), Guyana: Cuyuni River, Grand Batavia I. (W.M. Wheeler), Guyana: Kamakusa (H.O. Lang). Primary type depositories: LACM, MCZC.

[Allomerus octoarticulatus var. demerarae Wheeler, 1929i: 343. Nomen nudum].
[Also described as new, as Allomerus decemarticulatus subsp. octoarticulatus var. demerarae Wheeler, 1942: 200; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
Wheeler, 1942: 200 (w.q.m.)
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Ettershank, 1966: 113.
Subspecies of Allomerus octoarticulatus: Kempf, 1972b: 19; Bolton, 1995b: 61.
Junior synonym of Allomerus octoarticulatus: Fernández, 2007a: 168.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Fernández, F. 2007a. The myrmicine ant genus Allomerus Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 29:159-175. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1929i. Two interesting Neotropical myrmecophytes (Cordia nodosa and C. alliodora). Pp. 342-353 in: Jordan, K.; Horn, W. (eds.) 1929. Fourth International Congress of Entomology, Ithaca, August 1928. Volume II. Transactions. Naumburg a. Saale: G. Pätz, vii + 1037 pp.
Wheeler, W. M. 1935. [Untitled. New species of Allomerus attributed to W. M. Wheeler.]. Pp. 92-98 in: Wheeler, G. C. 1935. The larva of Allomerus (Hym.: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 42:92-98. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

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