Mycetophylax quebradae

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

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Mycetophylax quebradae (Kusnezov, 1949) junior synonym of current valid taxon Mycetophylax olitor (Forel, 1893)

Cyphomyrmex quebradae Kusnezov, 1949d: 445, figs. 6-8, 11 (w.q.m.) ARGENTINA (Tucumán). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 51 syntype workers, 3 syntype queens, 1 syntype male. Primary type locality: Argentina: Tucumán, Quebrada Cainzo, Mts ca 7 km. W Tafí Viejo, 700-800 m., 8.iv.1948, no. 1595 (N. Kusnezov). Primary type depositories: IMLT, MZSP. Type notes: Kempf, 1964d: 30, cites 6 worker, 1 queen syntypes in MZSP.

Status as species: Kusnezov, 1953c: 338; Kusnezov, 1957e: 10 (in key).
Junior synonym of Mycetophylax olitor: Kempf, 1964d: 30; Kempf, 1972b: 93; Bolton, 1995b: 168.

Obsolete combinations

Cyphomyrmex quebradae

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1964d. A revision of the Neotropical fungus-growing ants of the genus Cyphomyrmex Mayr. Part I: Group of strigatus Mayr (Hym., Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 7:1-44. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1949d. El género Cyphomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) en la Argentina. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 8:427-456. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1953c. Lista de las hormigas de Tucumán con descripción de dos nuevos géneros (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 13:327-339. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1957e. Nuevas especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Revista de la Sociedad Uruguaya de Entomología 2:7-18. PDF

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