Azteca alfari

Distribution
This taxon was described from Costa Rica. It is also found in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Suriname, Paraguay, Guyana, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago.

Nomenclature

 *  alfari. Azteca alfari Emery, 1893b: 138, pl. 2, figs. 48, 49 (s.w.) COSTA RICA. Emery, 1896c: 3 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1951: 192 (l.). Senior synonym of breviscapa, cecropiae, curtiscapa, fumaticeps, langi, lucidula, lynchi (and its junior synonym argentina), mixta, virens and material of the unavailable name zonalis referred here: Longino, 1989: 5; senior synonym of bicolor: Longino, 1992: 1575. See also: Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 215; Longino, 2007: 15. [Note: in the older literature the name of this taxon is frequently misspelled as alfaroi, for example Emery, 1896c: 4; Forel, 1899c: 113.]
 * bicolor. Azteca bicolor Emery, 1893b: 141, pl. 2, figs. 54-60 (s.w.q.) BRAZIL. Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1992: 1575.
 * lucidula. Azteca alfaroi r. lucidula Forel, 1899c: 113 (w.q.m.) GUATEMALA. Raised to species: Forel, 1912h: 51. Subspecies of alfari: Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 222; Kempf, 1972a; 29. Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.
 * virens. Azteca virens Forel, 1899c: 115 (footnote) (w.) BRAZIL. Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.
 * cecropiae. Azteca alfari r. cecropiae Forel, 1906d: 240 (w.) BRAZIL. Forel, 1908c: 387 (q.m.). See also: Forel, 1912h: 51; Stitz, 1913: 212. Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.
 * mixta. Azteca alfari var. mixta Forel, 1908c: 386 (w.q.m.) PARAGUAY. Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.
 * fumaticeps. Azteca alfaroi var. fumaticeps Forel, 1909a: 250 (w.) MEXICO. Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 218 (q.). Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.
 * breviscapa. Azteca foreli r. breviscapa Forel, 1912h: 51 (w.) COSTA RICA. [First available use of Azteca foreli r. championi var. breviscapa Forel, 1899c: 112; unavailable name.] Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.
 * curtiscapa. Azteca alfari var. curtiscapa Forel, 1912h: 51 (w.q.) COSTA RICA. Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.
 * argentina. Azteca alfari var. argentina Forel, 1914d: 287 (w.) ARGENTINA. Gallardo, 1916a: 115 (q.). Junior synonym of lynchi: Bruch, 1915: 534; Gallardo, 1915: 20.
 * lynchi. Azteca lynchi Brèthes, 1914a: 93 (w.) BOLIVIA. Subspecies of alfari: Bruch, 1915: 534. Senior synonym of argentina: Bruch, 1915: 534; Gallardo, 1915: 20. Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.
 * langi. Azteca alfari var. langi Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 218 (w.q.m.) GUYANA. Junior synonym of alfari: Longino, 1989: 5.