Megalomyrmex symmetochus
Wheeler, 1925
valid
Megalomyrmex (Cepobroticus) symmetochus
Wheeler, 1925e:
168, fig. 5 (w.q.m.)
PANAMA (Barro Colorado).
Neotropic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Brandão, 1990b: 445). Primary type locality: lectotype Panama: Canal Zone, Barro Colorado I., vii-viii.1924, in nest of Sericomyrmex amabilis (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC.
Secondary type information:
Secondary type material: 13 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MZSP, USNM.
- Lectotype designation: Brandão, 1990b: 445.
- Wheeler & Wheeler, 1955c: 126 (l.)
- Status as species: Ettershank, 1966: 105; Kempf, 1972b: 140; Brandão, 1990b: 445 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 355; Bolton, 1995b: 250; Brandão, 2003b: 155; Longino, 2010: 55; Boudinot et al., 2013: 63; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 118.
Citations
- Bezděčková, K.; Bezděčka, P.; Machar, I. 2015. A checklist of the ants of Peru. Zootaxa 4020:101-133. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Boudinot, B. E.; Sumnicht, T. P.; Adams, R. M. M. 2013. Central American ants of the genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): six new species and keys to workers and males. Zootaxa 3732:1-82. PDF
- Brandão, C. R. F. 1990b. Systematic revision of the Neotropical ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), with the description of thirteen new species. Arquivos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 31:411-481. PDF
- Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
- Brandão, C. R. F. 2003b. Further revisionary studies on the ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 43:145-159. PDF
- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Longino, J. T. 2010. A taxonomic review of the ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Central America. Zootaxa 2720:35-58. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1955c. The ant larvae of the myrmicine tribe Solenopsidini. American Midland Naturalist 54:119-141. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1925e. A new guest-ant and other new Formicidae from Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Biological Bulletin (Woods Hole) 49:150-181. PDF
†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
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