Azteca alfari curtiscapa

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Azteca alfari curtiscapa Forel, 1912 junior synonym of current valid taxon Azteca alfari Emery, 1893

Azteca alfari var. curtiscapa Forel, 1912i: 51 (w.q.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype queen (by designation of Longino, 1989b: 5). Primary type locality: lectotype Costa Rica: (no further data) (received from Emery). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: paralectotype workers (number not stated). Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: 1) Shattuck, 1994: 11, cites 3 worker paralectotypes in MHNG. 2) Other original syntype locality: Panama: (no further data) (Christophersen) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 29; no lectotype designated). 3) Panama specimens excluded from type-series by Longino, 1989b: 5.

Lectotype designation: Longino, 1989b: 5.
Subspecies of Azteca alfari: Wheeler, 1942: 217; Kempf, 1972b: 29.
Junior synonym of Azteca alfari: Longino, 1989b: 5; Brandão, 1991: 329; 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.
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
Forel, A. 1912i. Formicides néotropiques. Part V. 4me sous-famille Dolichoderinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:33-58. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 1989b. Taxonomy of the Cecropia-inhabiting ants in the Azteca alfari species group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): evidence for two broadly sympatric species. Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 412:1-16. 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. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

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