Hypoponera opaciceps (Mayr

Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55 : 54

publication ID

21367

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B08DA0DB-EEC0-4ED3-9FBE-59328B034102

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6239981

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E2616977-DF05-8905-E719-5E5D3D349BA8

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scientific name

Hypoponera opaciceps (Mayr
status

 

Hypoponera opaciceps (Mayr View in CoL   HNS 1887).

Ponera opaciceps Mayr   HNS 1887: 536. [lectotype w examined, NHMW; Santa Catharina, Brazil]

Hypoponera opaciceps (Mayr)   HNS . Taylor 1967: 11.

Ponera opaciceps var. postangustata Forel   HNS 1908b: 343. NEW SYNONYMY. [holotype w examined, MHNG; San Bernadino , Cordillera, Paraguay (Fiebrig)] .

Hypoponera opaciceps postangustata (Forel)   HNS . Kempf 1972: 123.

Forel (1908h) distinguished the variety postangustata   HNS from H. opaciceps   HNS on the basis of having a more convex head shape, but having examined and photographed both Mayr’s and Ford's types, I can find no discernable difference in shape. Both ants are remarkably similar in most respects except for color- the H. opaciceps   HNS type is piceous while H. postangustata   HNS is ferruginous. In any case, H. opaciceps   HNS is variable in many characters even within nest series. Ford's H. postangustata   HNS type falls well within the bounds of variation of H. opaciceps   HNS and I synonomize it here.

NHMW

Austria, Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

MHNG

Switzerland, Geneva, Museum d'Histoire Naturelle

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Hypoponera

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