Paratrechina fulva (Mayr 1862)
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Paratrechina fulva (Mayr 1862) View in CoL .
Prenolepis fulva Mayr 1862: 698 . [w syntypes examined, NHMW; Novara, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil].
Prenolepis (Nylanderia) fulva Mayr. Forel 1908a: 67 .
Prenolepis fulva var. fumata Forel 1909: 264 . NEW SYNONYMY. [syntype w examined, NHMB, Sierra Foncière, Paraguay (Fiebrig)].
Prenolepis (Nylanderia) fulva v. fumata Forel. Forel 1913: 246 .
Paratrechina (Nylanderia) fulva (Mayr) View in CoL . Emery 1925: 222.
Paratrechina (Nylanderia) fulva View in CoL var. fumata (Forel) . Emery 1925: 222.
Nylanderia fulva (Mayr) . Kempf 1972: 166.
Nylanderia fulva var. fumata (Forel) . Kempf 1972: 166.
Paratrechina fulva (Mayr) View in CoL . Snelling and Hunt 1976: 122.
Paratrechina fulva View in CoL var. fumata (Forel) . Brandão 1991: 366.
Paratrechina fulva (Mayr) View in CoL . Fernández 2000: 145–149.
Paratrechina fulva is among the most abundant ants in Paraguay, particularly in open and riparian habitats. It can be distinguished from all other Paratrechina species in Paraguay by the presence of dense pubescence on the meso- and metapleura. Forel’s P. fumata worker syntypes are also densely pubescent, but they are darker than most collections of P. fulva . However, Forel’s specimens fall well within the variation of forms that I consider to be conspecific with P. fulva , so I synonymize P. fumata here. Fernández (2000), who provides a useful redescription and discussion of P. fulva , reached a similar conclusion about the identity of “ P. fumata ” from Brazil but stopped short of formal synonymy.
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Paratrechina fulva (Mayr 1862)
Wild, Alexander L. 2007 |
v. fumata
Forel. Forel 1913: 246 |
var. fumata
Forel 1909: 264 |
Prenolepis (Nylanderia) fulva
Mayr. Forel 1908: 67 |
Prenolepis fulva
Mayr 1862: 698 |