Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius 1804)

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

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https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.179222

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6247379

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scientific name

Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius 1804)
status

 

Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius 1804) View in CoL .

Formica gracilis Fabricius 1804: 405 View in CoL .

Leptalea gracilis (Fabricius) . Erichson 1839: 309.

Pseudomyrma gracilis (Fabricius) . Roger 1862b: 289.

Pseudomyrma (Clavanoda) gracilis (Fabricius) . Enzmann 1944: 61.

Pseudomyrma gracilis var. atrinoda Santschi 1934: 26 . NEW SYNONYMY. [holotype w examined, NHMB; Rio Negro, Paraná, Brazil (Reichensperger)].

Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius) View in CoL . Kusnezov 1953: 214.

Pseudomyrmex gracilis View in CoL var. atrinoda (Santschi) . Kempf 1958: 434. Pseudomyrmex gracilis View in CoL var. atrinodus (Santschi) . Kempf 1972: 219.

Ants in the Pseudomyrmex gracilis species complex are ubiquitous in the neotropics, and the species P. gracilis itself presents a confusing array of variation (Ward 1989). Santschi distinguished his variety P. atrinodus on the basis of small size and light coloration on parts of the mesosoma, but I have examined the type material and in both these characters P. atrinodus is well within the normal range of variation of the species. Phil Ward, who is revising Pseudomyrmex , concurs with this synonymy (Ward, pers comm.)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Pseudomyrmex

Loc

Pseudomyrmex gracilis (Fabricius 1804)

Wild, Alexander L. 2007
2007
Loc

var. atrinoda

Santschi 1934: 26
1934
Loc

Formica gracilis

Fabricius 1804: 405
1804
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