Ooceraea seini

Ooceraea seini (Mann, 1931) junior synonym of current valid taxon Ooceraea biroi (Forel, 1907)

Cerapachys (Syscia) seini Mann, 1931: 440, fig. 1 (w.) PUERTO RICO. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “a series”). Primary type locality: Puerto Rico: Insular Experiment Station, Rio Piedras (F. Sein). Primary type depositories: MCZC, USNM.

Status as species: Smith, 1937: 823; Kempf, 1972b: 76.
Junior synonym of Ooceraea silvestrii: Wilson & Taylor, 1967b: 33
Junior synonym of Ooceraea biroi: Brown, 1975: 22, 73; Ogata, 1983b: 136; Brandão, 1991: 337; Bolton, 1995b: 144.

Obsolete combinations

Cerapachys seini

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
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Mann, W. M. 1931. A new ant from Porto Rico. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 21:440-441. PDF
Ogata, K. 1983b. The ant genus Cerapachys F. Smith of Japan, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Esakia 20:131-137. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1937 ("1936"). The ants of Puerto Rico. Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico 20:819-875. PDF
Wilson, E. O.; Taylor, R. W. 1967b. The ants of Polynesia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 14:1-109. PDF

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