Genus: Azteca

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Dolichoderinae Genus: Azteca

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

Azteca Forel, 1878: 384. Type-species: Liometopum xanthochroum, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

[Type-species not Tapinoma instabilis, unjustified subsequent designation (based on inaccurate synonymy) by Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 159. Type-species not Azteca muelleri, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1913a: 31; repeated in Wheeler, W.M. 1913a: 78.]

Azteca in Dolichoderinae: Forel, 1878: 384 [Dolichoderidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 163; Forel, 1895b: 108; Emery, 1895j: 771; Forel, 1899c: 104; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 142.

Azteca in Dolichoderidae: Ashmead, 1905b: 384.

Azteca in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini: Emery, 1913a: 29; Forel, 1917: 248; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 690; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 627; Kempf, 1972a: 29; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Jaffe, 1993: 9.

Azteca in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Shattuck, 1992c: 49; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003: 83.

Azteca in Dolichoderinae, Leptomyrmecini: Ward, Brady, et al. 2010: 361.

[Aztecum Bertkau, 1879: 13, incorrect subsequent spelling.]

 

Genus Azteca references

Dalla Torre, 1893: 163 (catalogue); Emery, 1893b: 127 (species key); Emery, 1913a: 29 (diagnosis, catalogue); Kempf, 1972a: 29 (catalogue); Longino, 1989: 1 (A. alfari group on Cecropia); Brand?o, 1991: 329 (catalogue); Longino, 1991: 1571 (Cecropia-inhabiting species key); Shattuck, 1992c: 49 (diagnosis, review of genus); Shattuck, 1994: 10 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 78 (catalogue); Longino, 1996: 131 (Costa Rica stem-inhabiting species key); Longino, 2007: 10 (Costa Rica species keys).

 


14 Species Imaged | View All 122 Species for this genus


Azteca adrepens

Azteca alfari

Azteca alw01

Azteca andreae

Azteca aragua

Azteca forelii

Azteca instabilis

Azteca luederwaldti

Azteca ovaticeps

Azteca pe01

Azteca schimperi

Azteca snellingi

Azteca undet

Azteca velox


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