Azteca sericea (Mayr

Longino, J. T., 2007, A taxonomic review of the genus Azteca (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Costa Rica and a global revision of the aurita group., Zootaxa 1491, pp. 1-63 : 61

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21311

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6246566

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scientific name

Azteca sericea (Mayr
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Azteca sericea (Mayr View in CoL   HNS 1866)

Iridomyrmex sericeus Mayr   HNS 1866:498. Syntype workers: Mexico, in pseudobulbs of Schomburgkia tibicinus (Heller) [ NHMW] (examined).

Liometopum instabile (F. Smith)   HNS (part): Mayr 1878:870.

Azteca sericea Mayr   HNS : Emery 1893:134.

Azteca instabilis var. mexicana Emery   HNS , 1896a:3 [n. nov. for Iridomyrmex xanthochrous Mayr   HNS 1866:497 (not Roger 1863)]. Syntype workers: Mexico (Norton) [ NHMW] (examined). NEW SYNONYMY.

The history of the name mexicana   HNS is complicated. Roger (1863) described A. xanthochroa   HNS based on a single queen from Mexico. Mayr (1866) described workers from Mexico as the workers of xanthochroa   HNS . Emery (1893) examined these workers, identifying them as xanthochroa   HNS and making xanthochroa   HNS a variety of instabilis   HNS . Emery (1896a), having discovered that xanthochroa   HNS was a species distinct from instabilis   HNS , reidentified these same workers as a new variety, instabilis var. mexicana   HNS . In the Mayr collection, under " instabilis Sm. var. xanthochroa Rog.   HNS ," are several pins with Emery determination labels. The only Mexican material among these are two workers, with labels "Mex, Norton," identified by Emery as " A. instabilis var. xanthochroa   HNS ." These are the syntypes of mexicana   HNS , and when I examined them I added red labels stating " syntypus Az. mexicana Emery   HNS 1896, det. J. Longino 1990." I compared the workers directly with the types of A. sericea   HNS .

To confuse matters, a series labeled "Mexico, No. 211," with red type labels indicating they are types of instabilis mexicana   HNS has been distributed to American museums. Specimens from LACM have an additional label indicating they are from the Pergande collection. I have examined specimens of this series from MCZC and LACM; and AMNH type labels on the MCZC material suggest there is also material at AMNH. These are not syntypes of mexicana   HNS . I identify them as A. pittieri   HNS .

NHMW

Austria, Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Azteca

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