Cryptopone guatemalensis

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guyana, Panama.

Nomenclature

 * . Ponera ochracea r. guatemalensis Forel, 1899c: 16 (w.) GUATEMALA, NICARAGUA.
 * Type-material: neotype worker (by designation of Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17).
 * [Note: Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, say that the lectotype worker earlier designated by Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 352, came from Florida, not from either of the original syntype series (Guatemala and Nicaragua), which they say are entirely lost.]
 * Type-locality: neotype Guatemala: Suchitepéquez, 4 km. S Vol. Atitlán, 14.54800, -91.19369±200 m., 1570 m., 14.vi.2009, #6709, cloud forest, rotten wood (J. Longino).
 * [Note (i): original syntype data: workers (number not stated) Guatemala: Aceituno (Champion), and Nicaragua: Chontales (Janson), material lost; (ii) Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17, also nominate as ‘paraneotypes’ (a category not recognised by ICZN), 2 workers, 3 queens, 3 males, in CASC, MCZC, USNM.]
 * Type-depository: MHNG (neotype).
 * Combination in Pachycondyla (Pseudoponera): Emery, 1901a: 46;
 * combination in Euponera (Trachymesopus): Emery, 1911d: 86;
 * combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1960f: 424;
 * combination in Cryptopone: Brown, 1963: 6.
 * Subspecies of ochracea: Emery, 1911d: 86.
 * Junior synonym of gilva: Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 352.
 * Status as species: Brown, 1963: 6; Kempf, 1972a: 90; Bolton, 1995b: 166; Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17.
 * Senior synonym of obsoleta: Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17.
 * Distribution: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua.
 * 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.