Acromyrmex echinatior

Acromyrmex echinatior (Forel, 1899) valid

Atta (Acromyrmex) octospinosa var. echinatior Forel, 1899d: 34 (w.q.) PANAMA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: lectotype worker (by designation of Schultz et al., 1998: 461). Primary type locality: Panama: Volcán de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion) (by restriction of Wheeler, 1937c: 72 (in text)). Lectotype: Guatemala: Vera Paz, Senahu, El Reposo, Zapota, 800 ft (Champion). Primary type depository: MHNG. Type notes: The designated lectotype is not from the nominated type-locality. All original syntype localities: Mexico: Chihuahua, Montezuma (Cockerell), Guatemala: Vera Paz, Senahu, El Reposo, Zapota, 800 ft (Champion), Costa Rica: Volcán de Irazu (Rogers), Panama: Volcán de Chiriqui, Bugaba (Champion).

Lectotype designation: Schultz et al., 1998: 461.
Wheeler, 1937c: 72 (m.); Adams et al., 2021: 204 (l.)
Combination in Acromyrmex: Emery, 1924f: 350
Junior synonym of Acromyrmex octospinosus: Emery, 1905f: 44.
Subspecies of Acromyrmex octospinosus: Forel, 1912f: 181; Emery, 1924f: 350; Santschi, 1925a: 391 (in key); Wheeler, 1937c: 71; Wheeler, 1938: 252; Santschi, 1939e: 319 (in key); Santschi, 1939f: 166 (in key); Weber, 1941b: 125; Kempf, 1972b: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 55.
Status as species: Schultz et al., 1998: 460; Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 257.

Obsolete combinations

Atta octospinosa echinatior

Citations

Adams, R. M. M.; Larsen, R. S.; Stylianidi, N.; Cheung, D.; Qiu, B.; Murray, S. K.; Zhang, G.; Boomsma, J. J. 2021. Hairs distinguish castes and sexes: identifying the early ontogenetic building blocks of a fungus-farming superorganism (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 31:201-216. 10.25849/myrmecol.news_031:201 PDF
Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Branstetter, M. G.; Sáenz, L. 2012. Las hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) de Guatemala. Pp. 221-268 in: Cano, E. B.; Schuster, J. C. (eds.) 2012. Biodiversidad de Guatemala. Volumen 2. Guatemala: Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, iv + 328 pp. PDF
Emery, C. 1905f. Revisione delle specie del genere Atta appartenenti ai sottogeneri Moellerius e Acromyrmex. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (6)2:39-54 [pagination of separate: 107-122].
Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. PDF
Forel, A. 1899d. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:25-56. PDF
Forel, A. 1912f. Formicides néotropiques. Part II. 3me sous-famille Myrmicinae Lep. (Attini, Dacetii, Cryptocerini). Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 19:179-209. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Santschi, F. 1925a. Revision du genre Acromyrmex Mayr. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31:355-398. PDF
Santschi, F. 1939e. Études et descriptions de fourmis néotropiques. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 10:312-330. PDF
Santschi, F. 1939f. Résultats scientifiques des croisières du navire-école belge, "Mercator". XIV. Formicidae s. lt. Mémoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique (2)15:159-167. PDF
Schultz, T. R.; Bekkevold, D.; Boomsma, J. J. 1998. Acromyrmex insinuator new species: an incipient social parasite of fungus-growing ants. Insectes Sociaux 45:457-471. PDF
Weber, N. A. 1941b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VII. The Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone, species. Revista de Entomologia (Rio de Janeiro) 12:93-130. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1937c. Mosaics and other anomalies among ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 95 pp. PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1938. Ants from the caves of Yucatan. Pp. 251-255 in: Pearse, A. S. 1938. Fauna of the caves of Yucatan. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 491:1-304. PDF

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