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Genus: Azteca

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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. 2009: page.

[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).