Sericomyrmex opacus

Sericomyrmex opacus Mayr, 1865 valid

Sericomyrmex opacus Mayr, 1865: 84, pl. 3, fig. 22a-c (q.) BRAZIL. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype queen. Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data). Primary type depository: NHMW. Type notes: Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 71, suggest the following modifications: Type-material: lectotype worker, 2 paralectotype workers. Type-locality: Mexico: Veracruz, Córdoba [18.8808, -96.9272] (E. Norton). Type-depositories: NHMW (lectotype); NHMW, USNM (paralectotypes). Type-specimen: CASENT0915956. In their discussion Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 78, argue for Mexico as type-locality, and workers as type material, but Mayr mentions only Brazil, and only a solitary queen is described and figured.

Lectotype designation: Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 71.
Mayr, 1866a: 506 (m.); Emery, 1894d: 223 (w.); Wheeler, 1916c: 11 (w.); Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 75 (l.).
Status as species: Mayr, 1866a: 506; Dalla Torre, 1893: 150; Emery, 1894d: 223; Forel, 1895b: 138; Wheeler, 1905c: 130; Forel, 1912f: 191 (in key); Wheeler, 1916c: 11 (in key); Emery, 1924f: 339; Borgmeier, 1927c: 128; Kempf, 1972b: 229; Bolton, 1995b: 382; Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 71 (redescription); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 874.
Senior synonym of Sericomyrmex aztecus: Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 72.
Senior synonym of Sericomyrmex diego: Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 72.
Senior synonym of Sericomyrmex zacapanus: Ješovnik & Schultz, 2017a: 72.

Junior synonyms

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1927c. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 2 parte. Subf. Pseudomyrminae, Myrmicinae, Formicidae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 29:69-164. PDF
Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1894d. Studi sulle formiche della fauna neotropica. VI-XVI. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 26:137-241. PDF
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. 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
Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
Forel, A. 1912f. Formicides néotropiques. Part II. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae Lep. (Attini, Dacetii, Cryptocerini). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 19:179-209. PDF
Ješovnik, A.; Schultz, T. R. 2017a. Revision of the fungus-farming ant genus Sericomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae). ZooKeys 670:1-109. 10.3897/zookeys.670.11839 PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. PDF
Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53:484-517. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1905c. The ants of the Bahamas, with a list of the known West Indian species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21:79-135. 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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