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An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Catalog
›
Formicidae
›
Myrmicinae
›
Attini
›
Atta
›
Atta polita
Atta
polita
Emery, 1905
junior synonym of current valid taxon
Atta cephalotes
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Atta cephalotes subsp. polita
Emery, 1905f
: 54 (w.) BOLIVIA. Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Bolivia: Mapiri (no collector’s name) (from Staudinger & Bang-Haas). Primary type depository:
MSNG
.
Subspecies of
Atta cephalotes
:
Forel, 1911g
: 257;
Forel, 1912f
: 179;
Emery, 1913c
: 259;
Emery, 1924f
: 353;
Gonçalves, 1942
: 345;
Weber, 1958a
: 11.
Status as species:
Weber, 1938b
: 205;
Borgmeier, 1939
: 423 (in list).
Subspecies of
Atta vollenweideri
:
Borgmeier, 1950d
: 243
Junior synonym of
Atta cephalotes
:
Borgmeier, 1959b
: 340;
Kempf, 1972b
: 26;
Bolton, 1995b
: 77;
Fernández
et al.
, 2015
: 99.
Obsolete combinations
Atta cephalotes polita
Citations
Bolton, B.
1995b.
A new general catalogue of the ants of the world.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T.
1939.
Nova contribuição para o conhecimento das formigas neotropicas (Hym. Formicidae).
Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 10:403-428.
PDF
Borgmeier, T.
1950d.
Estudos sôbre
Atta
(Hym. Formicidae).
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro 48:239-263.
PDF
Borgmeier, T.
1959b.
Revision der Gattung
Atta
Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Formicidae).
Studia Entomologica (n.s.)2:321-390.
PDF
Emery, C.
1905f.
Revisione delle specie del genere
Atta
appartenenti ai sottogeneri
Moellerius
e
Acromyrmex
.
Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (6)2:39-54 [pagination of separate: 107-122].
Emery, C.
1913c.
Études sur les Myrmicinae. [V-VII.].
Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:250-262.
PDF
Emery, C.
1924f ("1922").
Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.].
Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397.
PDF
Fernández, F.
;
Castro-Huertas, V.
;
Serna, F.
2015.
Hormigas cortadoras de hojas de Colombia:
Acromyrmex
&
Atta
(Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Fauna de Colombia, Monografía No.5.
Bogotá D.C., Colombia: Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 350 pp.
PDF
Forel, A.
1911g.
Die Ameisen des K. Zoologischen Museums in München.
Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 11:249-303.
PDF
Forel, A.
1912f.
Formicides néotropiques. Part II. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae Lep. (Attini, Dacetii, Cryptocerini).
Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 19:179-209.
PDF
Gonçalves, C. R.
1942.
Contribuição para o conhecimento do gênero
Atta
Fabr., das formigas saúvas
.
Boletim da Sociedade Brasileira de Agronomia 5:333-358.
PDF
Kempf, W. W.
1972b.
Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical.
Studia Entomologica 15:3-344.
PDF
Weber, N. A.
1938b.
The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part IV. Additional new forms. Part V. The Attini of Bolivia.
Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 9:154-206.
PDF
Weber, N. A.
1958a.
Nomenclatural notes on
Proatta
and
Atta
(Hym.: Formicidae).
Entomological News 69:7-13.
PDF
Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 obsolete combination)
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