Forelius pusillus
Santschi, 1922
junior synonym of current valid taxon Forelius heyeri (Forel, 1902)
Forelius breviscapus var. pusilla
Santschi, 1922c:
374 (w.)
ARGENTINA (Córdoba).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Argentina: Córdoba (M. Birabén). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911547.
Type notes:
1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 84, and Shattuck, 1994: 93 cite 4 worker syntypes in NHMB. 2) Cuezzo, 2000: 265, cites workers from Buenos Aires and Santa Fé, but these localities are not mentioned in the original description.
- Cuezzo, 2000: 264 (m.)
- Subspecies of Forelius breviscapus: Kempf, 1972b: 109; Shattuck, 1994: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 190.
- Status as species: Cuezzo, 2000: 263 (redescription); Wild, 2007b: 24; Guerrero & Fernández, 2008: 58 (in key).
- Junior synonym of Forelius heyeri: Guerrero, 2021: 433.
Obsolete combinations
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
- Guerrero, R. J. 2021. Transfer of two South American ant species from Tapinoma Foerster 1850 to Forelius Emery 1888 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Zootaxa 4920 (3):428–438. 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.3.8 PDF
- Guerrero, R. J.; Fernández, F. 2008. A new species of the ant genus Forelius (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) from the dry forest of Colombia. Zootaxa 1958:51-60. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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
- Wild, A. L. 2007b. A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1622:1-55. PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae