Pseudomyrmex belti saffordi

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Pseudomyrmex belti saffordi (Wheeler, 1942) junior synonym of current valid taxon Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus (Smith, 1877)

Pseudomyrma belti subsp. saffordi Wheeler, 1942: 162 (w.) MEXICO (Chiapas). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward, 1989a: 437). Primary type locality: lectotype Mexico: Chiapas, Chicoasen (G.N. Collins) (received from Safford). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 8 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: Original description cites 9 syntype workers.

Lectotype designation: Ward, 1989a: 437.
Combination in Pseudomyrmex: Kempf, 1972b: 216.
Subspecies of Pseudomyrmex belti: Kempf, 1972b: 216.
Junior synonym of Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus: Ward, 1989a: 437; Brandão, 1991: 376; Ward, 1993: 136; Bolton, 1995b: 375; Ward, 2017: 530.

Obsolete combinations

Pseudomyrma belti saffordi

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
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Ward, P. S. 1989a. Systematic studies on pseudomyrmecine ants: revision of the Pseudomyrmex oculatus and P. subtilissimus species groups, with taxonomic comments on other species. Quaestiones Entomologicae 25:393-468. PDF
Ward, P. S. 1993. Systematic studies on Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2:117-168. PDF
Ward, P. S. 2017. A review of the Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus and Pseudomyrmex goeldii species groups: acacia-ants and relatives (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4227 (4):524-542. 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.4.3 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

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