Labidus serpentis

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Labidus serpentis (Weber, 1938) junior synonym of current valid taxon Labidus coecus (Latreille, 1802)

Eciton (Labidus) serpentis Weber, 1938a: 209 (w.) GUYANA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a series... mostly in fragments”). Primary type locality: Guyana (“British Guiana”): nr junction of Oronque and New Rivers, Courantyne basin, 1.viii.1936, from stomach of Typhlops reticulatus (L.) (N.A. Weber). Primary type depositories: AMNH, MZSP (perhaps also MCZC).

Junior synonym of Labidus coecus: Borgmeier, 1955: 86; Kempf, 1972b: 127; Smith, 1979: 1328; Bolton, 1995b: 220.

Obsolete combinations

Eciton serpentis

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Weber, N. A. 1938a. New ants from stomachs of Bufo marinus L. and Typhlops reticulatus (L). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 31:207-210. PDF

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