Myrmelachista ramulorum

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Myrmelachista ramulorum Wheeler, 1908 valid

Myrmelachista ambigua subsp. ramulorum Wheeler, 1908a: 155, pl. 11, figs. 9, 10 (w.q.m.) PUERTO RICO. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated). Primary type localities: Puerto Rico: Culebra I., iii.1906 (W.M. Wheeler) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 148; no lectotype designated), Puerto Rico: Arecibo, iii.1906 (W.M. Wheeler), Puerto Rico: Utuado, iii.1906 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: MCZC, USNM.

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1953c: 138 (l.)
Subspecies of Myrmelachista ambigua: Mann, 1920b: 435; Emery, 1925d: 32; Menozzi & Russo, 1930: 165; Wheeler, 1942: 254.
Status as species: Wheeler, 1934g: 189; Smith, 1937: 872; Kempf, 1972b: 148; Smith, 1979: 1424; Deyrup et al., 1989: 100; Bolton, 1995b: 276; Deyrup et al., 2000: 301; Deyrup, 2003: 45; Deyrup, 2017: 211; Lubertazzi, 2019: 134.

Obsolete combinations

Myrmelachista ambigua ramulorum

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

M. r. fortior Wheeler, 1934

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Deyrup, M. 2003. An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Florida Entomologist 86:43-48. PDF
Deyrup, M. 2017. Ants of Florida. Identification and natural history. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press (Taylor & Francis group), 423 pp.
Deyrup, M.; Davis, L.; Cover, S. 2000. Exotic ants in Florida. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 126:293-326.
Deyrup, M.; Johnson, C.; Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1989. A preliminary list of the ants of Florida. Florida Entomologist 72:91-101. PDF
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Lubertazzi, D. 2019. The ants of Hispaniola. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162 (2):59-210. 10.3099/MCZ-43.1 PDF
Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42:403-439. PDF
Menozzi, C.; Russo, G. 1930. Contributo alla conoscenza della mirmecofauna della Repubblica Dominicana (Antille). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria della Reale Scuola Superiore d'Agricoltura. Portici 24:148-173. 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.
Smith, M. R. 1937 ("1936"). The ants of Puerto Rico. Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 20:819-875. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1953c. The ant larvae of the subfamily Formicinae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 46:126-171. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1908a. The ants of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24:117-158. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1934g. Neotropical ants collected by Dr. Elisabeth Skwarra and others. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:157-240. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

Extant: 1 valid subspecies

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