Lasiophanes sauberi

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Lasiophanes sauberi (Forel, 1903) junior synonym of current valid taxon Lasiophanes picinus (Roger, 1863)

Melophorus sauberi Forel, 1903e: 266 (w.) CHILE. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Chile: Tierra del Fuego, Punta Arenas (no collector’s name). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: Forel, 1903e: 267, gives “Musée de Hambourg” as depository; these specimens may have been destroyed in World War II.

Forel, 1904i: 4 (q.m.)
[Also described as new by Forel, 1904i: 4.]
[Misspelled as sanberi by Emery, 1922g: 91.]
Combination in Melophorus (Lasiophanes): Bruch, 1914: 230; Emery, 1922g: 92.
Combination in Lasiophanes: Wheeler, 1935c: 70.
Status as species: Bruch, 1914: 230; Gallardo, 1919b: 254; Emery, 1922g: 92 (in key); Emery, 1925d: 13.
Junior synonym of Lasiophanes picinus: Kusnezov, 1952e: 92; Kusnezov, 1960b: 391; Kempf, 1970a: 29; Kempf, 1972b: 129; Snelling & Hunt, 1976: 107; Bolton, 1995b: 221.

Obsolete combinations

Melophorus sauberi

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Bruch, C. 1914. Catálogo sistemático de los formícidos argentinos. Revista del Museo de La Plata 19:211-234. PDF
Emery, C. 1922g. Le specie americane del genere Melophorus (Lasiophanes). Rendiconti delle Sessioni della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe di Scienze Fisiche (n.s.)26:90-95.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Forel, A. 1903e. Mélanges entomologiques, biologiques et autres. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 47:249-268. PDF
Forel, A. 1904i. Formiciden. Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 7(8):1-7. PDF
Gallardo, A. 1919b. Hormigas del Neuquén y Río Negro. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 30:243-254. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1970a. Catálogo das formigas do Chile. Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia (São Paulo) 23:17-43. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1952e ("1951"). Lasiophanes Emery en la Patagonia. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 12:89-100. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1960b ("1959"). La fauna de hormigas en el oeste de la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 17:321-401. PDF
Snelling, R. R.; Hunt, J. H. 1976 ("1975"). The ants of Chile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Chilena de Entomología 9:63-129. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Cambridge) 42:68-72. PDF

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