Acanthostichus femoralis

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Acanthostichus femoralis Kusnezov, 1962 valid

Acanthostichus femoralis Kusnezov, 1962a: 126, figs. 2, 3b (w.) ARGENTINA (Formosa). Neotropic.

Primary type information: Type-material: holotype worker. Type-locality: Argentina: W Formosa, Estación Ingeniero Juárez, vii.1958, no. 10423 (N. Kusnezov). Type-depository: IMLT. Secondary type information: Paratype-material: 41 paratype workers. Paratype-locality: same as for holotype but nos 10422, 10429, 10449. Paratype-depositories: IMLT, MACN, MCZC (paratypes). Type notes: MacKay, 1996: 151, points out that the type-material is dated viii.1958, not vii.1958 as printed.

MacKay, 1996: 151 (m.).
Status as species: Kempf, 1968b: 372; Kempf, 1972b: 10; Brown, 1975: 38; Bolton, 1995b: 54; MacKay, 1996: 150 (redescription).

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. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search. Agriculture (Ithaca, New York) 5(1):1-115. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1968b. Miscellaneous studies on Neotropical ants. IV. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Studia Entomologica 11:369-415. PDF
Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
Kusnezov, N. 1962a. El género Acanthostichus Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zoologica Lilloana 18:121-138. PDF
MacKay, W. P. 1996. A revision of the ant genus Acanthostichus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 27:129-179. PDF

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