Myrmecocystus melanoticus

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Myrmecocystus melanoticus Wheeler, 1914 valid

Myrmecocystus mexicanus var. melanoticus Wheeler, 1914c: 57 (w.m.) MEXICO (Hidalgo). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Snelling, 1976: 118). Primary type locality: lectotype Mexico: Hidalgo, Pachuca, 1913 (W.M. Mann). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 7 paralectotype workers, 1 paralectotype male. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: LACM, MCZC. Type notes: 1) Original description cites 8 worker, 1 male syntypes. 2) Snelling, 1976: 118, excludes specimens in USNM from the type-series.

Lectotype designation: Snelling, 1976: 118.
Combination in Myrmecocystus (Myrmecocystus): Snelling, 1976: 116.
Subspecies of Myrmecocystus mexicanus: Emery, 1925d: 239.
Status as species: Snelling, 1976: 116 (redescription); Snelling, 1982b: 84 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 275.

Obsolete combinations

Myrmecocystus mexicanus melanoticus

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
Snelling, R. R. 1976. A revision of the honey ants, genus Myrmecocystus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Science Bulletin 24:1-163. PDF
Snelling, R. R. 1982b. A revision of the honey ants, genus Myrmecocystus, first supplement (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 81:69-86. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1914c. Ants collected by W. M. Mann in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 22:37-61. PDF

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