Iridomyrmex sericeus
Mayr, 1866a:
498, pl. fig. 8 (w.)
(no state data; and “St Joseph I.”).
MEXICO.
Neotropic.
- Wheeler, 1942: 239 (q.).
- Combination in Azteca: Forel, 1878c: 384
- Junior synonym of Azteca instabilis: Mayr, 1878: 870
- Junior synonym of Azteca xanthochroa: Forel, 1878c: 384 (footnote).
- Status as species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 164; Emery, 1893l: 134 (redescription); Forel, 1899b: 109; Emery, 1913a: 34; Wheeler, 1916c: 12; Wheeler, 1942: 239; Kempf, 1972b: 34; Shattuck, 1994: 25; Bolton, 1995b: 79; Longino, 2007: 61.
- Revived from synonymy: Emery, 1893l: 134
- Senior synonym of Azteca instabilis mexicana: Longino, 2007: 61
Junior synonyms
- Azteca instabilis mexicana Emery, 1896
Obsolete combinations
Citations
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Emery, C. 1893l. Studio monografico sul genere Azteca Forel. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna (5)3:119-152 [pagination of separate: 319-352].
- Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50. PDF
- Forel, A. 1878c. Études myrmécologiques en 1878 (première partie) avec l'anatomie du gésier des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 15:337-392. PDF
- Forel, A. 1899b. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:1-24. PDF
- 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
- Mayr, G. 1866a. Myrmecologische Beiträge. Sitzungsberichte der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe. Abteilung I 53:484-517. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1878 ("1877"). Formiciden gesammelt in Brasilien von Professor Trail. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 27:867-878. 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. 1916c. Ants collected in British Guiana by the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History during 1911. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 35:1-14. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90:1-262. PDF