Solenopsis brasiliana

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

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Solenopsis brasiliana Santschi, 1925 junior synonym of current valid taxon Solenopsis clytemnestra Emery, 1896

Solenopsis brasiliana Santschi, 1925d: 235 (w.) BRAZIL (Bahia). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 138). Primary type locality: lectotype Brazil: Bahia (Bondar). Primary type depository: MCZC (lectotype). Type notes: Original syntype series consisted of “several” workers; others are probably in NHMB.

Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 138.
[Misspelled as braziliana by Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 135.]
Status as species: Borgmeier, 1927c: 103; Ettershank, 1966: 140; Kempf, 1972b: 234; Bolton, 1995b: 386.
Junior synonym of Solenopsis clytemnestra: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 135

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
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Pacheco, J. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 501 pp. PDF
Santschi, F. 1925d. Nouveaux Formicides brésiliens et autres. Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 65:221-247. PDF

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