Azteca prorsa - AntCat

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

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Azteca prorsa Wheeler, 1942 junior synonym of current valid taxon Azteca longiceps Emery, 1893

Azteca prorsa Wheeler, 1942: 238, pl. 56, fig. a (w.) GUATEMALA. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”). Primary type locality: Guatemala: Escuintla, xii.1911 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depositories: LACM, MCZC, NHMB. Type notes: Shattuck, 1994: 24, cites 48 worker syntypes.

Status as species: Kempf, 1972b: 34; Shattuck, 1994: 24; Bolton, 1995b: 79.
Junior synonym of Azteca longiceps: Longino, 2007: 37

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2007. A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group. Zootaxa 1491:1-63. 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
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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