Perissomyrmex snyderi

Identification
Ogata and Okito (2007) - Diagnosed by the presence of a subpetiolar process in the workers, the dentition of the anterior margin of the clypeus and the coarse and irregular sculpturation on the head.

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists
Neotropical Region: Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico.

Nomenclature

 * . Perissomyrmex snyderi Smith, M.R. 1947i: 282, figs. 1, 2 (w.) GUATEMALA.
 * Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker.
 * Type-locality: Guatemala (no further data); in begonia root from Guatemala, intercepted in quarantine at Hoboken, New Jersey, U.S.A.
 * Type-depository: USNM.
 * Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 182; Bolton, 1981b: 283; Bolton, 1995b: 316; Longino & Hartley, 1995: 195 Radchenko, 2003: 18 (in key); Xu & Wang, 2004: 218 (in key); Zhou & Huang, 2006: 193 (in key); Ogata & Okido, 2007: 362 (redescription); Branstetter & Sáenz, 2012: 259.
 * Distribution: Guatemala, Mexico.

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

 * Dattilo W. et al. 2019. MEXICO ANTS: incidence and abundance along the Nearctic-Neotropical interface. Ecology https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2944
 * Longino J. T. L., and M. G. Branstetter. 2018. The truncated bell: an enigmatic but pervasive elevational diversity pattern in Middle American ants. Ecography 41: 1-12.
 * Longino, J.T. and D.A. Hartley. 1994. Perissomyrmex snyderi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) is native to Central America and exhimits worker polymorphism. Psyche 101:195-202
 * Vásquez-Bolaños M. 2011. Lista de especies de hormigas (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) para México. Dugesiana 18: 95-133