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Labidus nero (Santschi, 1930) valid

Eciton (Labidus) coecum st. nero Santschi, 1930e: 82 (m.) BRAZIL. Neotropic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype males (number not stated). Primary type locality: Brazil: (no further data), 15.x.1928 (A. Reichensperger). Primary type depository: NHMB. Primary type specimen: CASENT0911393. Type notes: 1) Male in NHMB with petiole and gaster missing (B. Bolton). 2) DuVal et al., 2025: 5, cite a holotype male in NHMB with data Brazil: Rio de Janeiro (Itatiaia), 15.x.1928 (Reichensperger). 3) Mônica Antunes Ulysséa cites a syntype male in MZSP with label data Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Itatiaia, 515.x.28, #6, J.F. Zikán col. (MZSP0082328).

Combination in Labidus: Borgmeier, 1953: 14.
Subspecies of Labidus coecus: Borgmeier, 1936b: 58.
Junior synonym of Neivamyrmex mars: Nascimento et al., 2004: 618.
Status as species: Borgmeier, 1953: 14; Borgmeier, 1955: 127 (redescription); Kempf, 1972b: 127; Watkins, 1976: 8 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 220; DuVal et al., 2025: 5.

Obsolete combinations

Eciton coecum nero

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Borgmeier, T. 1936b. Sobre algumas formigas dos generos Eciton e Cheliomyrmex (Hym. Formicidae). Archivos do Instituto de Biologia Vegetal (Rio de Janeiro) 3:51-68. PDF
Borgmeier, T. 1953. Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der neotropischen Wanderameisen. Studia Entomologica 2:1-51. PDF
Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Studia Entomologica 3:1-720. PDF
DuVal, M. E. L.; Probst, R. S.; Branstetter, M. G.; Longino, J. T. 2025. Untangling the ant claws: the army ant Labidus mars is a Neivamyrmex (Formicidae: Dorylinae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 9 (3):ixaf016, 9 pp. [online early] 10.1093/isd/ixaf016 PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Nascimento, I. C. do; Delabie, J. H. C.; Ferreira, P. S. F.; Della Lucia, T. M. C. 2004. Mating flight seasonality in the genus Labidus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) at Minas Gerais, in the Brazilian Atlantic forest biome, and Labidus nero, junior synonym of Labidus mars. Sociobiology 44:615-622. PDF
Santschi, F. 1930e. Quelques fourmis de Cuba et du Brésil. Bulletin. Société Entomologique d'Egypte 14:75-83. PDF
Watkins, J. F., II 1976. The identification and distribution of New World army ants (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 102 pp. PDF

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