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Azteca sapii Forel, 1912 valid

Azteca longiceps r. sapii Forel, 1912i: 56 (w.q.) BRAZIL (Amazonas). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers, syntype queens (numbers not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: Amazonas, São Antonio de Iça (A. Ducke). Primary type depositories: AMNH, BMNH, MCZC, MHNG, NHMB. Type notes: 1) Baroni Urbani, 1977e: 81, cites 1 worker syntype in NHMB. 2) Shattuck, 1994: 21, cites 66 worker, 6 queen syntypes (2 workers, 1 queen in AMNH, 2 workers in BMNH, 1 worker in MCZC, 62 workers, 5 queens in MHNG, 1 worker in NHMB).

Subspecies of Azteca longiceps: Borgmeier, 1923: 93; Wheeler, 1942: 234; Kempf, 1972b: 33; Shattuck, 1994: 21; Bolton, 1995b: 79.
Status as species: Longino, 1996: 144.

Obsolete combinations

Azteca longiceps sapii

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C. 1977e. Katalog der Typen von Formicidae (Hymenoptera) der Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Basel (2. Teil). Mitteilungen der Entomologischen Gesellschaft Basel (n.s.)27:61-102.
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.
Forel, A. 1912i. Formicides néotropiques. Part V. 4me sous-famille Dolichoderinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:33-58. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Longino, J. T. 1996. Taxonomic characterization of some live-stem inhabiting Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica, with special reference to the ants of Cordia (Boraginaceae) and Triplaris (Polygonaceae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 5:131-156. 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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