Brachymyrmex micromegas

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Brachymyrmex micromegas Emery, 1923 valid

Brachymyrmex (Bryscha) micromegas Emery, 1923: 675, figs. 30, 32 (w.) BRAZIL (São Paulo). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype minor worker (by designation of Ortiz & Fernández, 2014: 16). Primary type locality: lectotype Brazil: São Paulo, Ypiranga (H. von Ihering). Primary type depository: MSNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 4 paralectotype major workers, 1 paralectotype minor worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, MSNG, MZSP. Type notes: Ortiz-Sepúlveda et al., 2019: 508, cite another 4 paralectotype minor workers in MHNG.

Lectotype designation: Ortiz & Fernández, 2014: 16.
Status as species: Luederwaldt, 1918: 48; Emery, 1925d: 44; Borgmeier, 1927c: 142; Kempf, 1972b: 41; Bolton, 1995b: 82; Ortiz & Fernández, 2014: 16 (redescription); Ortiz-Sepúlveda et al., 2019: 508 (redescription).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
Emery, C. 1923. [Untitled. Brachymyrmex micromegas sp. nov. attributed to C. Emery.]. Pp. 675-676 in: Santschi, F. 1923b. Revue des fourmis du genre Brachymyrmex Mayr. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 31:650-678. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
Ortiz-Sepúlveda, C. M.; Van Bocxlaer, B.; Meneses, A. D.; Fernández, F. 2019. Molecular and morphological recognition of species boundaries in the neglected ant genus Brachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Toward a taxonomic revision. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19:447-542. 10.1007/s13127-019-00406-2 PDF
Ortiz, C. M.; Fernández, F. 2014. Brachymyrmex species with tumuliform metathoracic spiracles: description of three new species and discussion of dimorphism in the genus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 371:13-33. PDF

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