Simopelta laticeps

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Simopelta laticeps Gotwald & Brown, 1967 valid

Simopelta laticeps Gotwald & Brown, 1967: 273, figs. 15, 16 (w.) PERU. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Peru: 28 mi. E Olmos, Lambayeque, 2000 m., 19.i.1955 (E.J. Schlinger & E.S. Ross). Primary type depository: CASC. Primary type specimen: CASTYPE09451. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paratype worker. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: Mackay & Mackay, 2008b: 306, report that the paratype could not be found in MCZC.

Combination in Belonopelta: Baroni Urbani, 1975b: 299 (in key).
Combination in Simopelta: Bolton, 1995b: 383.
Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 230; Baroni Urbani, 1975b: 299 (in key); Brandão, 1991: 331; Bolton, 1995b: 383; Mackay & Mackay, 2008b: 305 (redescription); Bezděčková et al., 2015: 125; Fernández & Guerrero, 2019: 546.

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1975b. Contributo alla conoscenza dei generi Belonopelta Mayr e Leiopelta gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 48:295-310. PDF
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.
Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J. 2019. Subfamilia Ponerinae. Capítulo 17. Pp. 509-553 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
Gotwald, W. H., Jr.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1967 ("1966"). The ant genus Simopelta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Cambridge) 73:261-277. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Mackay, W. P.; Mackay, E. 2008b. Revision of the ants of the genus Simopelta Mann. Pp. 285-328 in: Jiménez, E.; Fernández, F.; Arias, T.M.; Lozano-Zambrano, F. H. (eds.) 2008. Sistemática, biogeografía y conservación de las hormigas cazadoras de Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xiv + 609 pp. PDF

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