Polyergus mexicanus
Forel, 1899
valid
Polyergus rufescens r. mexicanus
Forel, 1899h:
129 (w.)
MEXICO.
Nearctic.
Primary type information:
Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Mexico: (no further data) (Brinkmann). Primary type depository: MHNG. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911121.
Type notes:
Type locality probably Durango (Trager, 2013: 517 (in text)).
- Subspecies of Polyergus rufescens: Wheeler, 1901e: 715; Wheeler, 1917a: 556; Emery, 1925d: 269; Bolton, 1995b: 342.
- Status as species: Trager, 2013: 515 (redescription).
- Senior synonym of Polyergus rufescens fusciventris: Trager, 2013: 515.
- Senior synonym of Polyergus rufescens laeviceps: Trager, 2013: 515.
- Senior synonym of Polyergus rufescens umbratus: Trager, 2013: 515.
- Material of the unavailable name Polyergus rufescens breviceps silvestrii referred here by Trager, 2013: 515.
Junior synonyms
- Polyergus rufescens fusciventris Wheeler & Wheeler, 1944
- Polyergus rufescens laeviceps Wheeler, 1915
- Polyergus rufescens umbratus Creighton, 1950
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
- Forel, A. 1899h. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:105-136. PDF
- Trager, J. C. 2013. Global revision of the dulotic ant genus Polyergus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Formicinae, Formicini). Zootaxa 3722 (4):501-548. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1901e. The compound and mixed nests of American ants. Part II (continued). American Naturalist 35:701-724. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1917a. The mountain ants of western North America. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 52:457-569. 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