Neivamyrmex halidaii (Shuckard)

Snelling, G. C. & Snelling, R. R., 2007, New synonymy, new species, new keys to Neivamyrmex army ants of the United States., Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. (Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 80), pp. 459-550 : 472-473

publication ID

21290

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6246835

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scientific name

Neivamyrmex halidaii (Shuckard)
status

 

Neivamyrmex halidaii (Shuckard) View in CoL   HNS

Labidus latreillii   HNS : Haliday, 1836: 328 (m). Misidentification

Labidus halidaii Shuckard   HNS , 1840: 200. BRAZIL, Sao Paulo ( BMNH) .

Eciton halidayi   HNS : Dalla Torre, 1893: 3. Erroneous spelling by Dalla Torre and most subsequent authors.

Labidus gravenhorstii Westwood   HNS , 1842: 76 (m). BRAZIL, Goias, Rio Vendhina.

Labidus amplipennis F. Smith   HNS , 1859: 6 (m). COLOMBIA, Bogota ( BMNH) .

Eciton (Acamatus)   HNS Le Moulti Santschi, 1912: 524 (m). FRENCH GUYANA, St. Laurent de Maroni (Basel)

Eciton (Acamatus) colombi Santschi   HNS , 1921: 94 (m). COLOMBIA, Bogota (Basel)

Eciton (Labidus) frontalis Menozzi   HNS , 1924: 29 (m). BRAZIL,

Woitkowskia mexicana E. Enzmann   HNS , 1952: 445 (m). MEXICO, Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutierrez (type lost?).

NEW SYNONYMY

Neivamyrmex halidaii   HNS : Borgmeier, 1953: 12, 15, 18 (m). Bolton, 1995: 289.

Neivamyrmex amplipennis   HNS : Borgmeier, 1953: 17.

Neivamyrmex halidaii lemoulti   HNS : Borgmeier, 1953: 14.

Neivamyrmex colombi   HNS : Borgmeier, 1953: 13.

Neivamyrmex frontalis   HNS : Borgmeier, 1953: 11.

Neivamyrmex halidayi   HNS : Borgmeier, 1955: 437 - 445 (m). Watkins, 1982: 212. Watkins, 1990: 381.

DISTRIBUTION

MEXICO: Vera Cruz and Oaxaca to Chiapas (Watkins, 1982), south to BOLIVIA and northern ARGENTINA.

DISCUSSION

The genus Woitkowskia was described by Enzmann (1952) for two neotropical species. It was synonymized by Borgmeier (1955) with Neivamyrmex   HNS and its type species, W. connectens Enzmann   HNS , synonymized with N. walkerii (Westwood, 1842)   HNS ; the status of W. mexicana Enzmann   HNS , 1952, was left unresolved. As the name implies, W. mexicana   HNS was described from a single male from Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico; the present location of the type is unknown. Despite its verbosity the original description is mostly worthless and the accompanying figures are inept. It is not surprising that subsequent workers have largely avoided dealing with this taxon. Watkins, in his several papers on North American Neivamyrmex   HNS ignored this species altogether. Bolton (1995) merely noted that Enzmann's name was an unresolved junior seconday homonym of N. mexicanus (F. Smith, 1859)   HNS .

Worthless as Enzmann's description and figure of W. mexicana   HNS appear to be, it is possible to match them to males of N. halidaii   HNS , a species that is common at the type locality of W. mexicana   HNS . Accordingly we have synonymized that name here because there appears to be no reason not to do so. Unless the type is some day located and proven not to be a synonym of N. hallidaii   HNS , this seems the best way to deal with Enzmann's name.

BMNH

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

BMNH

United Kingdom, London, The Natural History Museum [formerly British Museum (Natural History)]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Neivamyrmex

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