Ochetomyrmex subpolita

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Ochetomyrmex subpolita (Wheeler, 1916) junior synonym of current valid taxon Ochetomyrmex semipolitus Mayr, 1878

Wasmannia subpolita Wheeler, 1916c: 8 (w.) GUYANA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type localities: Guyana (“British Guiana”): Tukeit, 1911, (AMNH Expd.) (F.E. Lutz) (invalid restriction of type locality by Kempf, 1972b: 168; no lectotype designated), Guyana (“British Guiana”): Kaieteur, 1911, (AMNH Expd.) (F.E. Lutz), Guyana: Roraima, Kauwa Creek, 1911, (AMNH Expd.) (H.E. Crampton). Primary type depositories: AMNH, LACM, MCZC, MZSP.

Kempf, 1975c: 361 (q.m.); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977a: 595 (l.)
Combination in Ochetomyrmex: Kempf, 1961b: 511.
Status as species: Emery, 1924f: 294; Kusnezov, 1952h: 174; Kempf, 1961b: 511; Kempf, 1972b: 168; Kempf, 1975c: 359 (redescription); Brandão, 1991: 362; Bolton, 1995b: 293.
Junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex semipolitus: Fernández, 2003h: 638.

Obsolete combinations

Wasmannia subpolita

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Fernández, F. 2003h. Myrmicine ants of the genera Ochetomyrmex and Tranopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 41:633-661.
Kempf, W. W. 1961b. A survey of the ants of the soil fauna in Surinam (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 4:481-524. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1975c. Miscellaneous studies on neotropical ants. VI. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 18:341-380. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1952h ("1951"). El género Wasmannia en la Argentina (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 10:173-182. PDF
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1977a. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 103:581-602. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1916c. Ants collected in British Guiana by the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during 1911. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35:1-14. PDF

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