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
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6239892
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scientific name	Paratrechina fulva (Mayr
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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.