Mycocepurus attaxenus

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

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Mycocepurus attaxenus (Eidmann, 1936) junior synonym of current valid taxon Mycocepurus smithii (Forel, 1893)

Trachymyrmex attaxenus Eidmann, 1936b: 85 (w.q.) Menozzi, in Eidmann, 1936b. BRAZIL (Rio de Janeiro). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Mendes, 19, 21, 25.ix. (H. Eidmann). Primary type depositories: DEIB, IEUB, MZSP.

Junior synonym of Mycocepurus smithii: Kempf, 1963b: 425; Kempf, 1972b: 147; Bolton, 1995b: 269; Mackay et al., 2004: 5.

Obsolete combinations

Trachymyrmex attaxenus

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Eidmann, H. 1936b. Ökologisch-faunistische Studien an südbrasilianischen Ameisen. [concl.]. Arbeiten über Physiologische und Angewandte Entomologie aus Berlin-Dahlem 3:81-114. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1963b. A review of the ant genus Mycocepurus Forel, 1893 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 6:417-432. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Mackay, W. P.; Maes, J.-M.; Rojas Fernández, P.; Luna, G. 2004. The ants of North and Central America: the genus Mycocepurus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Science 4 (27):7 pp. PDF

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