Cephalotes pusillus brevispinosa

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Cephalotes pusillus brevispinosa (Santschi, 1921) junior synonym of current valid taxon Cephalotes pusillus (Klug, 1824)

Cryptocerus pusillus var. brevispinosa Santschi, 1921h: 127, fig. 2 (w.) ARGENTINA (Misiones, Córdoba), PARAGUAY, BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type localities: Argentina: Misiones, vic. San Ignacio, Villa Lutecia (E.R. Wagner), Argentina: Cerro Cora (E. von Steiger), Argentina: Córdoba (C. Bruch), Paraguay: (no further data) (K.A.G. Fiebrig), Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Alto da Boa Vista (E.R. Wagner). Primary type depositories: MNHN, NHMB. Type notes: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 172, cite 3 worker syntypes in NHMB.

Subspecies of Cephalotes pusillus: Borgmeier, 1927c: 116.
Junior synonym of Cephalotes pusillus: Kempf, 1951: 176; Kempf, 1958a: 14; Kempf, 1972b: 180; Brandão, 1991: 388; Bolton, 1995b: 424; De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 172; Oliveira et al., 2021: 42 (in list).

Obsolete combinations

Cryptocerus pusillus brevispinosa

Infrasubspecies

C. p. b. rufescens (Santschi, 1921)

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
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
De Andrade, M. L.; Baroni Urbani, C. 1999. Diversity and adaptation in the ant genus Cephalotes, past and present. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 271:1-889. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1951. A taxonomic study on the ant tribe Cephalotini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 22:1-244. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1958a. New studies of the ant tribe Cephalotini (Hym. Formicidae). Studia Entomologica (n.s.)1:1-168.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Oliveira, A. M.; Powell, S.; Feitosa, R. M. 2021. A taxonomic study of the Brazilian turtle ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Cephalotes). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 65 (3):52 pp. e20210028. [online early] 10.1590/1806-9665-RBENT-2021-0028 PDF
Santschi, F. 1921h. Quelques nouveaux Cryptocerus de l'Argentine et pays voisins. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 92:124-128. PDF

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