Paratrechina fulva (Mayr

Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55 : 45

publication ID

21367

publication LSID

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

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6239892

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Paratrechina fulva (Mayr
status

 

Paratrechina fulva (Mayr View in CoL   HNS 1862).

Prenolepis fulva Mayr   HNS 1862: 698. [w syntypes examined, NHMW; Novara , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil] .

Prenolepis (Nylanderia) fulva Mayr   HNS . Forel 1908a: 67.

Prenolepis fulva var. fumata Forel   HNS 1909: 264. NEW SYNONYMY. [syntype w examined, NHMB, Sierra Fonciere , Paraguay (Fiebrig)] .

Prenolepis (Nylanderia) fulva v. fumata Forel   HNS . Forel 1913: 246.

Paratrechina (Nylanderia) fulva (Mayr)   HNS . Emery 1925: 222.

Paratrechina (Nylanderia) fulva var. fumata (Forel)   HNS . Emery 1925: 222.

Nylanderia fulva (Mayr)   HNS . Kempf 1972: 166.

Nylanderia fulva var. fumata (Forel)   HNS . Kempf 1972: 166.

Paratrechina fulva (Mayr)   HNS . Snelling and Hunt 1976: 122.

Paratrechina fulva var. fumata (Forel)   HNS . Brandão 1991: 366.

Paratrechina fulva (Mayr)   HNS . Fernández 2000: 145-149.

Paratrechina fulva   HNS is among the most abundant ants in Paraguay, particularly in open and riparian habitats. It can be distinguished from all other Paratrechina   HNS species in Paraguay by the presence of dense pubescence on the meso- and metapleura. Forel’s P. fumata   HNS worker syntypes are also densely pubescent, but they are darker than most collections of P. fulva   HNS . However, Forel’s specimens fall well within the variation of forms that I consider to be conspecific with P. fulva   HNS , so I synonymize P. fumata   HNS here. Fernández (2000), who provides a useful redescription and discussion of P. fulva   HNS , reached a similar conclusion about the identity of “ P. fumata   HNS ” from Brazil but stopped short of formal synonymy.

NHMW

Austria, Wien, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien

NHMB

Switzerland, Basel, Naturhistorisches Museum

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Paratrechina

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