Azteca ulei gibbifera

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Azteca ulei gibbifera Forel, 1908 junior synonym of current valid taxon Azteca muelleri Emery, 1893

Azteca ulei var. gibbifera Forel, 1908: 392 (w.) BRAZIL (São Paulo). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: São Paulo, Ilha Victoria, iv.1906 (F. Gunther). Primary type depositories: MHNG, MZSP. Primary type specimens: CASENT0909698 MP 2492, MZSP0063481, MZSP0063482. Type notes: 1) Shattuck, 1994: 22, cites 4 worker syntypes in MHNG. 2) Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S2, supply the corrected collection details from the handwritten catalogues at MZSP: MP 2492, Azteca ulei For. vr. gibbifera n. var. (Formicid.), iv. 1906 F. Gunther leg, Ilha Victoria, Forel det. Public! 3) Original collection information: Brazil: São Paulo (H. von Ihering). 4) Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S1, cite 4 syntype workers in MZSP.

Subspecies of Azteca ulei: Emery, 1913a: 35; Luederwaldt, 1918: 47; Borgmeier, 1923: 97; Wheeler, 1942: 246; Kempf, 1972b: 35.
Junior synonym of Azteca muelleri: Longino, 1991a: 1591; Shattuck, 1994: 22; Bolton, 1995b: 78.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1923. Catalogo systematico e synonymico das formigas do Brasil. 1 parte. Subfam. Dorylinae, Cerapachyinae, Ponerinae, Dolichoderinae. Archivos do Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro) 24:33-103. PDF
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1908. Ameisen aus Sao Paulo (Brasilien), Paraguay etc. gesammelt von Prof. Herm. v. Ihering, Dr. Lutz, Dr. Fiebrig, etc. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 58:340-418. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 1991a. Taxonomy of the Cecropia-inhabiting Azteca ants. Journal of Natural History 25:1571-1602. PDF
Luederwaldt, H. 1918. Notas myrmecologicas. Revista do Museu Paulista 10:29-64. PDF
Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241. PDF
Ulysséa, M. A.; Santos, S.; Moleiro, H. P.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Camacho, G. P. 2025. The MZSP Ant Type Collection: a complete catalogue and digital resource for global access. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 145 (3):blaf034, 17 pp. [online early] 10.1093/biolinnean/blaf034 PDF
Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF

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