Octostruma inca

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Octostruma inca Brown & Kempf, 1960 valid

Octostruma inca Brown & Kempf, 1960: 185, figs. 16, 29 (w.q.) PERU. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Peru: (unknown locality) no. 732 (W. Weyrauch). Primary type depository: MZSP. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 14 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: IMLT, MCZC, MZSP. Type notes: Paratypes are also in Weyrauch’s private collection, whereabouts unknown (perhaps MUSL or MUSM).

Wheeler & Wheeler, 1977a: 600 (l.)
Status as species: Kempf, 1968b: 400; Kempf, 1972b: 169; Bolton, 1995b: 293; Palacio, 1997: 417 (in key); Longino, 2013b: 37; Bezděčková et al., 2015: 118; Fernández & Serna, 2019: 868.

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.
Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
Fernández, F.; Serna, F. J. 2019. Subfamilia Myrmicinae. Capítulo 27. Pp. 791-888 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1968b. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. IV. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 11:369-415. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2013b. A revision of the ant genus Octostruma Forel, 1912 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zootaxa 3699:1-61. PDF
Palacio, E. 1997. Hormigas de Colombia VI. Dos nuevas especies de Octostruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Basicerotini). Caldasia 19:409-418.
Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1977a. Supplementary studies on ant larvae: Myrmicinae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 103:581-602. PDF

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