Azteca bicolor

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Azteca bicolor Emery, 1893 junior synonym of current valid taxon Azteca alfari Emery, 1893

Azteca bicolor Emery, 1893l: 141, pl. 2, figs. 54-60 (w.q.) BRAZIL (Mato Grosso). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype queen (by designation of Longino, 1991a: 1575). Primary type locality: lectotype Brazil: Mato Grosso (P. Germain). Primary type depository: MSNG (lectotype). Type notes: 1) Longino, 1991a: 1575, excluded workers of the Mato Grosso series from the type series. 2) Other original syntype locality: workers Paraguay: (no further data) (L. Balzan), excluded from the type series by Longino, 1991a: 1575. 3) Kempf, 1972b: 30, incorrectly gave Costa Rica as type locality.

Lectotype designation: Longino, 1991a: 1575.
Status as species: Forel, 1895b: 109; Forel, 1899b: 119; Emery, 1913a: 32; Wheeler, 1922e: 14; Borgmeier, 1923: 90; Wheeler, 1942: 225; Kempf, 1972b: 30.
Junior synonym of Azteca alfari: Longino, 1991a: 1575; Shattuck, 1994: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 78; Longino, 2007: 15.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24:33-103.
Emery, C. 1893l. Studio monografico sul genere Azteca Forel. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)3:119-152 [pagination of separate: 319-352].
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 1991a. Taxonomy of the Cecropia-inhabiting Azteca ants. Journal of Natural History 25:1571-1602. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2007. A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group. Zootaxa 1491:1-63. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922e. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45:1-16. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

Extant: 0 valid subspecies (1 obsolete combination)

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