| Authorship |
Johnson, 2021:
31, figs. 1E-F, 10A, 11-13, 14A
|
| Forms |
w.eq.em. |
| Bioregion |
Neotropic |
| Locality |
ARGENTINA (Catamarca) |
| Etymology |
The specific epithet, apterogenos (Latin, aptero = wingless, and genos = parentage), refers to this species having ergatoid queens and males. |
| Primary type information |
Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Argentina: Catamarca Province, Departamento Tinogasta, Chuschuil Valley at 20.9 km S Cortaderas, 27º44.0’S 68º08.2’W, 10,380’ (3145 m), 31.i.2010, #4376 (R.A. Johnson). Primary type depository: MACN. Primary type specimen: CASENT0914124. |
| Secondary type information |
Secondary type material: 157 paratype workers, 2 paratype ergatoid males. Secondary type locality: 72 paratype workers with same data as holotype; 12 paratype workers with same data as holotype but #4377; 23 paratype workers, 1 paratype ergatoid male with same data as holotype but #4378; 27 paratype workers with same data as holotype but #4379; 23 paratype workers, 1 paratype ergatoid male with same data as holotype but #4380. Secondary type depositories: IFML, MACN, LACM, MCZC, RAJC, UCDC, USNM. |
