Forelius rubriceps

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Forelius rubriceps Gallardo, 1916 valid

Forelius chalybaeus var. rubriceps Gallardo, 1916b: 85 (w.) ARGENTINA (San Luis). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Cuezzo, 2000: 267). Primary type locality: lectotype Argentina: San Luis, Alto Pencoso (C. Bruch). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 24 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MHNG, NHMB. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 84, cites 3 worker syntypes in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 96, cites 28 worker, 4 male syntypes (25w, 4m MHNG, 3w NHMB). 3) Cuezzo, 2000 does not mention paralectotype males.

Lectotype designation: Cuezzo, 2000: 267.
[First available use of Forelius chalybaeus grandis rubriceps Forel, 1914d; unavailable (infrasubspecific) name.]
[Misspelled as ruficeps by Santschi, 1920d: 382.]
As unavailable (infrasubspecific) name: Bruch, 1915: 533.
Subspecies of Forelius chalybaeus: Gallardo, 1916b: 85 (date of publication 18.v.1916); Bruch, 1916: 345 (date of publication 22.ix.1916); Santschi, 1920d: 382; Santschi, 1929d: 305.
Status as species: Kusnezov, 1957e: 17 (in key); Kempf, 1972b: 110; Shattuck, 1994: 96; Bolton, 1995b: 190; Cuezzo, 2000: 265 (redescription).

Obsolete combinations

Forelius chalybaeus rubriceps

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.
Bruch, C. 1915. Suplemento al catálogo de los formícidos argentinos. I. (Addenda et corrigenda). Revista del Museo de La Plata 19:527-537. PDF
Bruch, C. 1916. Contribución al estudio de las hormigas de la provincia de San Luis. Revista del Museo de La Plata 23:291-357. PDF
Cuezzo, F. 2000. Revisión del género Forelius (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dolichoderinae). Sociobiology 35:197-275. PDF
Gallardo, A. 1916b. Las hormigas de la República Argentina. Subfamilia Dolicoderinas. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 28:1-130. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1957e. Nuevas especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista de la Sociedad Uruguaya de Entomología 2:7-18. PDF
Santschi, F. 1920d. Formicides africains et américains nouveaux. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 88:361-390. PDF
Santschi, F. 1929d. Nouvelles fourmis de la République Argentine et du Brésil. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 107:273-316. 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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