Daceton cordata

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Daceton cordata (Fabricius, 1804) junior synonym of current valid taxon Daceton armigerum (Latreille, 1802)

Myrmecia cordata Fabricius, 1804: 425 (w.) GUYANA (Essequibo). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 3 syntype workers. Primary type locality: South America: (“Habitat in America meridionali Dom. Smidt. Mus. Dom. de Sehestedt.”) (no further data). Primary type depositories: ZMUC, ZMUK. Type notes: 1) Zimsen, 1964: 428, cites 3 worker syntypes (2 in ZMUC, 1 in ZMUK). 2) Type material is labeled “Essequibo Smidt. Mus. de Sehestedt”; hence type locality is Guyana: Essequibo.

Junior synonym of Daceton armigerum: Roger, 1862c: 290; Mayr, 1863a: 406; Roger, 1863b: 40; Dalla Torre, 1893: 149; Forel, 1895b: 136; Emery, 1924f: 317; Borgmeier, 1927c: 120; Kempf, 1972b: 95; Bolton, 1995b: 168.

Obsolete combinations

Myrmecia cordata

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
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Fabricius, J. C. 1804. Systema Piezatorum secundum ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonymis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Brunswick: C. Reichard, xiv + 15-439 + 30 pp. PDF
Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460. PDF
Roger, J. 1862c. Synonymische Bemerkungen. 1. Ueber Formiciden. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 6:283-297. PDF
Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
Zimsen, E. 1964. The type material of I. C. Fabricius. Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 656 pp. PDF

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