Nylanderia fulva

Distribution
This taxon was described from Brazil. It is also found in Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Suriname, Paraguay, French Guiana, Guyana, Mexico, Canada, Haiti and Dominican Republic.

Nomenclature

 *  fulva. Prenolepis fulva Mayr, 1862: 698 (w.q.) BRAZIL. Forel, 1891b: 94 (m.); Forel, 1912i: 67 (m.). Combination in Pr. (Nylanderia): Forel, 1908b: 67; in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925b: 222; in Nylanderia: Kempf, 1972a: 166; in Paratrechina: Snelling, R.R. & Hunt, 1976: 122; in Nylanderia: LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck, 2010a: 127. Senior synonym of fumata: Wild, 2007b: 45. See also: Fernández, 2000: 146; Fox, et al. 2010: 795. Current subspecies: nominal plus biolleyi, cubana, fumatipennis, incisa, longiscapa, nesiotis.
 * fumata. Prenolepis fulva var. fumata Forel, 1909a: 264 (w.) PARAGUAY. Forel, 1912i: 67 (q.). Combination in Pr. (Nylanderia): Forel, 1913l: 246; in Paratrechina (Nylanderia): Emery, 1925b: 222; in Nylanderia: Kempf, 1972a: 166; in Paratrechina: Brandão, 1991: 366; in Nylanderia: LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck, 2010a: 127. Junior synonym of fulva: Wild, 2007b: 45.

Additional References

 * Eduardo Gonçalves Paterson Fox, Daniel Russ Solis, Mônica Lanzoni Rossi & Odair Correa Bueno. 2010. Morphological studies on the mature worker larvae of Paratrechina fulva (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Sociobiology, 55, 795-803.
 * Gotzek, D., Brady, S.G., Kallal, R.J. & LaPolla, J.S. 2012, The importance of using multiple approaches for identifying emerging invasive species: The case of the Rasberry Crazy Ant in the United States. PLoS ONE 7(9): e45314 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045314).