Azteca chartifex decipiens

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Azteca chartifex decipiens Forel, 1906 valid

Azteca chartifex r. decipiens Forel, 1906d: 236 (w.) BRAZIL (Pará). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Pará (E.A. Göldi). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 81, cites 4 worker syntypes in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 14, cites 30 worker syntypes (26 in MHNG, 4 in NHMB). 3) This taxon was also described as new in Forel, 1906d: 236, where type localities are given as Brazil: Pará, Mexiana I. (Hagmann), Brazil: Amazonas, Rio Negro, Barcellos (A. Ducke).

[First available use of Azteca chartifex laticeps decipiens Forel, 1904d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
Subspecies of Azteca chartifex: Emery, 1913a: 32; Wheeler, 1916f: 330; Wheeler, 1922e: 14; Borgmeier, 1923: 90; Kempf, 1972b: 30; Shattuck, 1994: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 78.

Infrasubspecies

A. c. d. laniens Forel, 1906

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102.
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. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1906d. Fourmis néotropiques nouvelles ou peu connues. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 50:225-249. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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. 1916f. Ants collected in Trinidad by Professor Roland Thaxter, Mr. F. W. Urich, and others. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60:323-330. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922e. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45:1-16. PDF

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