TY  - JOUR
A1  - Silva, Thiago Sanches Ranzani da
A1  - Chaul, Júlio Cezar Mário
A1  - Feitosa, Rodrigo Machado
T1  - Lectotype designation and redescription of four commonly collected Neotropical species of Strumigenys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - In 1887, Mayr described four species of the ant genus Strumigenys collected in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina: Strumigenys unidentata, Strumigenys subedentata, Strumigenys denticulata, and Strumigenys crassicornis. All of them were described based on a series of one to several specimens, without designation of a holotype, as usual at that time. The same can be said about Strumigenys eggersi, described by Emery in 1890 based on specimens collected in Saint Thomas (U.S. Virgin Islands), without designation of a holotype. In 1961, Brown designated a lectotype for S. unidentata and synonymized it under Strumigenys louisianae. However, the specimens belonging to the type series of the other four species remain as syntypes. Considering that these are four of the most frequently collected species of Strumigenys in the Neotropical region, in this work we provide lectotype designations and complete redescriptions for S. crassicornis, S. denticulata, S. eggersi, and S. subedentata to ensure the taxonomic stability of these names.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 798:103–126 
KW  - myrmicine ants
KW  - nomenclatural act
KW  - taxonomic additions
KW  - predatory ants
KW  - leaf-litter ants
Y1  - 2022
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/66025
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-660259
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.798.1673
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2022
IS  - 798
SP  - 103
EP  - 126
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -