Solenopsis minutissima

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Solenopsis minutissima Emery, 1906 valid

Solenopsis minutissima Emery, 1906c: 133, fig. 15 (w.m.) ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 231). Primary type locality: lectotype Argentina: Buenos Aires, Nuñez, 17.ii.1899 (F. Silvestri). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 1 paralectotype worker, 1 paralectotype male. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MSNG. Type notes: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 231, report 8 syntype workers, 3 syntype males from the original type series, in MSNG, which should also be paralectotypes.

Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 231.
Wheeler, 1914c: 44 (q.)
Status as species: Bruch, 1914: 223; Wheeler, 1914c: 43; Wheeler, 1916f: 324; Emery, 1922c: 200; Wheeler, 1922e: 9; Santschi, 1923c: 253; Borgmeier, 1934: 103; Kusnezov, 1953c: 337; Ettershank, 1966: 142; Kempf, 1972b: 238; Bolton, 1995b: 389; Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 229 (redescription).
Senior synonym of Solenopsis brevipes: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 229

Junior synonyms

Solenopsis brevipes Emery, 1906

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1934. Contribuição para o conhecimento da fauna mirmecológica dos cafezais de Paramaribo, Guiana Holandesa (Hym. Formicidae). Archivos do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal (Rio de Janeiro) 1:93-111. PDF
Bruch, C. 1914. Catálogo sistemático de los formícidos argentinos. Revista del Museo de La Plata 19:211-234. PDF
Emery, C. 1906c ("1905"). Studi sulle formiche della fauna Neotropica. XXXVII. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 37 (1905):107-194. PDF
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B:95-206. PDF
Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 14:73-171. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1953c. Lista de las hormigas de Tucumán con descripción de dos nuevos géneros (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 13:327-339. PDF
Pacheco, J. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 501 pp. PDF
Santschi, F. 1923c. Solenopsis et autres fourmis néotropicales. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 30:245-273. 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
Wheeler, W. M. 1916f. Ants collected in Trinidad by Professor Roland Thaxter, Mr. F. W. Urich, and others. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 60:323-330. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1922e. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45:1-16. PDF

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