Linepithema pordescens
(Wheeler, 1942)
junior synonym of current valid taxon Linepithema angulatum (Emery, 1894)
Iridomyrmex pordescens
Wheeler, 1942:
214 (w.)
COSTA RICA.
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Wild, 2007a: 29). Primary type locality: lectotype Costa Rica: nr San José, 1.xii.1911 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 8 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MCZC, USNM.
Type notes:
1) Original description cites 14 worker syntypes. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 127, cites 13 worker syntypes (10 MCZC, 3 USNM).
- Lectotype designation: Wild, 2007a: 29.
- Combination in Linepithema: Shattuck, 1992a: 16
- Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 126; Shattuck, 1994: 127; Bolton, 1995b: 247.
- Junior synonym of Linepithema angulatum: Wild, 2007a: 29
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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
- Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF
- 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