Cryptopone obsoleta
(Menozzi, 1931)
junior synonym of current valid taxon Cryptopone guatemalensis (Forel, 1899)
Euponera (Trachymesopus) obsoleta
Menozzi, 1931d:
196, fig. 5 (w.)
COSTA RICA.
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352). Primary type locality: Costa Rica: Vara Blanca, 2000 m., between Barba Volcano and Poas (H. Schmidt). Primary type depository: NHMB.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: IEUB, DEIM.
Type notes:
1) Original description cites “several” syntype workers. 2) Baroni Urbani, 1973b: 135, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB.
- Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352.
- Combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1960f: 424.
- Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 308.
- Combination in Cryptopone: Longino, 2006b: 135.
- Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 251.
- Junior synonym of Cryptopone gilva: Longino, 2006b: 135; MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 352.
- Junior synonym of Cryptopone guatemalensis: Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17.
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1973b. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel. Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)23:122-152.
- Branstetter, M. G.; Longino, J. T. 2022. UCE phylogenomics of New World Cryptopone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) elucidates genus boundaries, species boundaries, and the vicariant history of a temperate–tropical disjunction. Insect Systematics & Diversity 6(1):6:1-23. 10.1093/isd/ixab031 PDF
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Kempf, W. W. 1960f. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:417-466. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Longino, J. T. 2006b. New species and nomenclatural changes for the Costa Rican ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten 8:131-143. PDF
- MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF
- Menozzi, C. 1931d. Qualche nuova formica di Costa Rica (Hym.). Stettiner Entomologische Zeitung 92:188-202. PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae
- Anochetus
- †Archiponera
- Asphinctopone
- Austroponera
- Belonopelta
- Boloponera
- Bothroponera
- Brachyponera
- Buniapone
- Centromyrmex
- †Cephalopone
- Corrieopone
- Cryptopone
- †Cyrtopone
- †Desyopone
- Diacamma
- Dinoponera
- Dolioponera
- Ectomomyrmex
- Emeryopone
- Euponera
- Feroponera
- Fisheropone
- Hagensia
- Harpegnathos
- Hypoponera
- Igaponera
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- Leptogenys
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- Mayaponera
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- †Messelepone
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- Odontomachus
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- Ophthalmopone
- Pachycondyla
- Paltothyreus
- Parvaponera
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- Plectroctena
- Ponera
- †Ponerites
- Promyopias
- †Protopone
- Psalidomyrmex
- Pseudoneoponera
- Pseudoponera
- Rasopone
- †Siinikaponera
- Simopelta
- Streblognathus
- Thaumatomyrmex
- Wadeura