Azteca polymorpha

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Azteca polymorpha Forel, 1899 valid

Azteca polymorpha Forel, 1899h: 121 (footnote) (w.) COLOMBIA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Colombia: Magdalena (A. Forel). Primary type depositories: BMNH, MCZC, MHNG, MZSP. Type notes: 1) Shattuck, 1994: 24, cites 58 worker syntypes (3 in BMNH, 1 in MCZC, 54 in MHNG). 2) Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S1, cite 1 syntype worker (MZSP0078158) in MZSP. However, it has a collection date of 1906, later than the date when the original description was published.

Forel, 1912i: 56 (q.)
Status as species: Forel, 1912i: 56; Emery, 1913a: 34; Kempf, 1972b: 34; Shattuck, 1994: 24; Bolton, 1995b: 79; Guerrero, 2019: 706.

Current subspecies (nominal plus)

A. p. bahiana Forel, 1912

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
Forel, A. 1899h. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:105-136. PDF
Forel, A. 1912i. Formicides néotropiques. Part V. 4me sous-famille Dolichoderinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:33-58. PDF
Guerrero, R. J. 2019. Subfamilia Dolichoderinae. Capítulo 24. Pp. 693-720 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. 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

Extant: 1 valid subspecies

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