Pseudoponera stigma rufescens

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Pseudoponera stigma rufescens (Wheeler & Mann, 1914) junior synonym of current valid taxon Pseudoponera stigma (Fabricius, 1804)

Euponera (Trachymesopus) stigma var. rufescens Wheeler & Mann, 1914: 13 (w.q.) HAITI. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 518). Primary type locality: lectotype Haiti: W shore Lake Assuei, Manneville, 1912-13 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype queen. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, MCZC. Type notes: 1) Original description cites 9 worker, 1 queen syntypes. 2) MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 518, also mention 3 syntype workers in AMNH.

Lectotype designation: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 518.
Combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1972b: 251.
Combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, 1995a: 309.
Subspecies of Pseudoponera stigma: Kempf, 1972b: 251; Bolton, 1995b: 309.
Junior synonym of Pseudoponera stigma: MacKay & MacKay, 2010: 519.

Obsolete combinations

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1995a. [Untitled. Taxonomic changes in Pachycondyla and Neoponera attributed to Brown.]. Pp. 302-311 in: Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
MacKay, W. P.; MacKay, E. 2010. The systematics and biology of the New World ants of the genus Pachycondyla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, xii + 642 pp. PDF
Wheeler, W. M.; Mann, W. M. 1914. The ants of Haiti. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33:1-61. PDF

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