Solenopsis spei

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

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Solenopsis spei Forel, 1912 junior synonym of current valid taxon Solenopsis bicolor (Emery, 1906)

Solenopsis spei Forel, 1912h: 11 (w.) COLOMBIA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 121). Primary type locality: lectotype Colombia: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Dibulla, Hacienda de l’Esperanza (A. Forel). Primary type depository: MHNG. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 5 paralectotype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for lectotype. Secondary type depository: MHNG.

Lectotype designation: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 121.
Status as species: Emery, 1922c: 201; Ettershank, 1966: 143; Kempf, 1972b: 240; Bolton, 1995b: 391.
Junior synonym of Solenopsis bicolor: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 119

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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
Forel, A. 1912h. Formicides néotropiques. Part IV. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae Lep. (suite). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:1-32. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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

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