Euponera obsoleta

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Cryptopone guatemalensis.

Nomenclature

 * obsoleta. Euponera (Trachymesopus) obsoleta Menozzi, 1931d: 196, fig. 5 (w.) COSTA RICA.
 * Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 352).
 * [Note: several other syntype workers exist, perhaps best regarded as paralectotypes as all specimens were originally from a single series.]
 * Type-locality: Costa Rica: Vara Blanca, 2000 m., between Barba Volcano and Poas (H. Schmidt).
 * Type-depositories: NHMB (lectotype); IEUB, DEIM (paralectotypes).
 * Combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1960f: 424;
 * combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 308;
 * combination in Cryptopone: Longino, 2006b: 135.
 * Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 251.
 * Junior synonym of gilva: Longino, 2006b: 135; Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 352.
 * Junior synonym of guatemalensis: Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17.