Linepithema leucomelas
(Emery, 1894)
valid
Iridomyrmex leucomelas
Emery, 1894h:
378 (footnote) (w.q.)
BRAZIL (Rio Grande do Sul).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Wild, 2007a: 81). Primary type locality: lectotype Brazil: Rio Grande do Sul (H. von Jhering). Primary type depository: USNM.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: USNM.
Type notes:
1) Other original syntype locality: workers (number not stated) and 1 queen from Brazil: Santa Catarina (J.P. Schmalz). 2) Other paralectotypes probably also in MHNG (Shattuck, 1994: 126), MSNG).
- Lectotype designation: Wild, 2007a: 81.
- Wild, 2007a: 83 (m.)
- Combination in Linepithema: Shattuck, 1992a: 16
- Status as species: Forel, 1908: 394; Emery, 1913a: 27; Luederwaldt, 1918: 47; Borgmeier, 1923: 88; Kempf, 1969: 294 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 126; Shattuck, 1994: 126; Bolton, 1995b: 247; Wild, 2007a: 81 (redescription); Steiner et al., 2017: 12.
- Senior synonym of Linepithema aspidocoptus: Wild, 2007a: 81
Junior synonyms
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Linepithema aspidocoptus
(Kempf, 1969)
Obsolete combination(s): Iridomyrmex aspidocoptus
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Borgmeier, T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24:33-103.
- Emery, C. 1894h. [Untitled.]. Pp. 373-401 in: von Jhering, H. 1894. Die ameisen von Rio Grande do Sul. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 39:321-447. PDF
- Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
- Forel, A. 1908. Ameisen aus Sao Paulo (Brasilien), Paraguay etc. gesammelt von Prof. Herm. v. Ihering, Dr. Lutz, Dr. Fiebrig, etc. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 58:340-418. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1969. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. V. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 12:273-296. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
- Shattuck, S. O. 1992a. Review of the dolichoderine ant genus Iridomyrmex Mayr with descriptions of three new genera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 31:13-18. 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
- Steiner, F. M.; Ambach, J.; Glaser, F.; Wagner, H. C.; Müller, J.; Schlick-Steiner, B. C. 2017. Checklisten der Fauna Ősterreichs, No. 9: Formicidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Wien: Ősterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1-23.
- Wild, A. L. 2007a. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Linepithema (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 126:1-151. 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