Basiceros manni

Basiceros manni Brown & Kempf, 1960 valid

Basiceros manni Brown & Kempf, 1960: 177, figs. 3, 11 (w.q.) COSTA RICA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Santa Clara Prov., Hamburg Farm, 1924 (F. Nevermann). Primary type depository: USNM. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 27 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens. Secondary type localities: 19 paratype workers, 2 paratype queens with same data as holotype, 6 paratype workers Costa Rica: Columbiana Farm, iii.1920 (W.M. Mann), 2 paratype workers Honduras: Songrelaya, v.1924 (W.M. Mann). Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MZSP, USNM. Type notes: Brown & Kempf, 1960 add that some paratypes are “elsewhere”, without specification.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1983a: 607 (l.); Probst & Brandão, 2022: 38 (m.), 39 (l.)
Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 36; Brown, 1974c: 138; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1986a: 12; Wilson & Hölldobler, 1986: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 80; Feitosa et al., 2007: 19 (in key); Probst & Brandão, 2022: 35 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1974c. A supplement to the revision of the ant genus Basiceros (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the New York Entomological Society 82:131-140. PDF
Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
Feitosa, R. M.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Dietz, B. H. 2007. Basiceros scambognathus (Brown, 1949) n. comb., with the first worker and male descriptions, and a revised generic diagnosis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia 47:15-26. PDF
Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1986a. Soil-binding pilosity and camouflage in ants of the tribes Basicerotini and Stegomyrmecini (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zoomorphology (Berlin) 106:12-20.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Probst, R. S.; Brandão, C. R. F. 2022. A taxonomic revision of the dirt ants, Basiceros Schulz, 1906 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 5149 (1):1-75. 10.11646/zootaxa.5149.1.1 PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1983a. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 108:601-610. PDF
Wilson, E. O.; Hölldobler, B. 1986. Ecology and behavior of the Neotropical cryptobiotic ant Basiceros manni (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Basicerotini). Insectes Sociaux 33:70-84. PDF

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