Solenopsis puncticeps

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

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Solenopsis puncticeps MacKay & Vinson, 1989 junior synonym of current valid taxon Solenopsis pergandei Forel, 1901

Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) puncticeps MacKay & Vinson, 1989a: 177, figs. 5-8 (w.) U.S.A. (Texas). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: holotype worker. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: Texas, Brazos County, 10 km. N Kurten, 5.v.1987 (W. Mackay). Primary type depository: MCZC. Secondary type information: Secondary type material: 120 paratype workers. Secondary type locality: same as for holotype. Secondary type depositories: AMNH, BMNH, CASC, FMNH, FSCG, ICNB, LACM, MACN, MCZC, MSUS, MZSP, TAMU, UNAM, USNM, WEMC.

Status as species: Bolton, 1995b: 390.
Junior synonym of Solenopsis pergandei: Pacheco & Mackay, 2013: 258

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
MacKay, W. P.; Vinson, S. B. 1989a. Two new ants of the genus Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) from eastern Texas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 91:175-178. PDF
Pacheco, J. A.; Mackay, W. P. 2013. The systematics and biology of the New World thief ants of the genus Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 501 pp. PDF

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