Eurhopalothrix speciosa

Eurhopalothrix speciosa Brown & Kempf, 1960 valid

Eurhopalothrix speciosa Brown & Kempf, 1960: 203, figs. 31-33 (w.) BRAZIL (Santa Catarina). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: Brazil: Santa Catarina, Nova Teutonia, v.1957 (F. Plaumann). Primary type depository: MZSP. Primary type specimen: MZSP0085662. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 2 paratype workers. Secondary type localities: 1 paratype worker with same data as holotype, 1 paratype worker Santa Catarina, Serra Geral, xii.1958 (F. Plaumann). Secondary type depositories: MCZC, MZSP. Secondary type specimen: MZSP0085663. Type notes: Ulysséa et al., 2025: Table S1, cite holotype worker, 1 paratype worker in MZSP.

Status as species: Snelling, 1968c: 3 (in key); Kempf, 1972b: 108; Bolton, 1995b: 190; Ketterl et al., 2004: 48 (in key); Longino, 2013a: 142; Chaul, 2022: 7 (in key).

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
Chaul, J. C. M. 2022. Redescription of Eurhopalothrix reichenspergeri (Santschi, 1923) stat. rev. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Brazilian Atlantic Forest endemic species. Zootaxa 5182 (1):1-20. 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.1.1 PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Ketterl, J.; Verhaagh, M.; Dietz, B. H. 2004. Eurhopalothrix depressa sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from southern Brazil with a key to the Neotropical taxa of the genus. Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment 39:45-48. PDF
Longino, J. T. 2013a. A review of the Central American and Caribbean species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf, 1961 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to New World species. Zootaxa 3693:101-151. PDF
Snelling, R. R. 1968c. A new species of Eurhopalothrix from El Salvador (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 154:1-4. 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