Forelius rufus pilipes

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Forelius rufus pilipes Santschi, 1920 junior synonym of current valid taxon Forelius brasiliensis (Forel, 1908)

Forelius rufus var. pilipes Santschi, 1920d: 382 (w.) ARGENTINA (Santiago del Estero). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Argentina: Santiago del Estero, chaco, bank of Rio Salado, vic. Icaño, 1903 (E.R. Wagner). Primary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB (perhaps also MNHN). Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 84, cites 2 worker syntypes in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 92, cites 7 worker syntypes (5 MHNG, 2 NHMB).

[Forelius rufus var. pilipes Santschi, 1919f: 53. Nomen nudum.]
Subspecies of Forelius brasiliensis: Santschi, 1922c: 374; Kempf, 1972b: 108; Shattuck, 1994: 92; Bolton, 1995b: 190.
Junior synonym of Forelius brasiliensis: Cuezzo, 2000: 229

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102. PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Cuezzo, F. 2000. Revisión del género Forelius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Sociobiology 35:197-275. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Santschi, F. 1919f. Nouveaux formicides de la République Argentine. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 87:37-57. PDF
Santschi, F. 1920d. Formicides africains et américains nouveaux. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 88:361-390. PDF
Santschi, F. 1922c. Myrmicines, dolichodérines et autres formicides néotropiques. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 54:345-378. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF

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