A catalogue of the Pseudomyrmecinae ants type specimens (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

This catalogue lists the type specimens of 37 species of Pseudomyrmecinae ants deposited in the Hymenoptera Formicidae collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, which holds types of the only two genera that occur in the Neotropics, Pseudomyrmex Lund and Myrcidris Ward. We record the label information, condition of the specimens, nomenclatural changes, type status, and provide an index of the listed taxa.

Type specimens of Pompiloidea, Thynnoidea and Vespoidea (Hymenoptera) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

“…This paper is part of a series of lists being published to cover the Hymenoptera type specimens deposited in the entomological collection of MZSP. Until this moment, the following catalogues have been published: ants (Brandão, 1991;Klingenberg & Brandão, 2005;Brandão et al, 2010;Esteves et al, 2011;Prado & Brandão, 2013;Ulysséa & Brandão, 2013;Ulysséa et al, 2015), bees (Ramos et al, 2015), "Symphyta" & "Parasitica" wasps (Onody et al, 2014) and Chrysidoidea wasps (Santos et al, 2017). These initiatives agree with the 72F of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, fourth edition, January 1999) recommendation making information about these types available to researches.…”

Type specimens of bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

“…Additionally, a large dataset of primary types imagens in high-resolution is provided. This paper is part of a series of lists being published to cover the Hymenoptera deposited in the entomological collection of MZSP (Klingenberg & Brandão, 2005;Brandão et al, 2010;Esteves et al, 2011;Prado & Brandão, 2013;Ulysséa & Brandão, 2013;Onody et al, 2014). These initiatives are in agreement with efforts from various institutions to document their type specimen holdings as recommended the Article 72F.4 of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, fourth edition, January 1999), which regards the documentation of the specimens type as an institutional responsibility.…”

Crabronidae and Sphecidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) type specimens deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

“…In this context, and taking into account the recommendation 72F of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN, fourth edition, January 1999) about the role of collections in making the types available to researches, catalogues have been published aiming to list all Hymenoptera types specimens deposited in the MZUSP collection. These catalogues cover, until this moment: ants (Brandão, 1991;Klingenberg & Brandão, 2005;Brandão et al, 2010;Esteves et al, 2011;Prado & Brandão, 2013;Ulysséa & Brandão, 2013;Ulysséa et al, 2015), bees (Ramos et al, 2015), "Symphyta" & "Parasitica" wasps (Onody et al, 2014), Chrysidoidea (Santos et al, 2017) and Pompiloidea, Thynnoidea and Vespoidea wasps (Andrade et al, 2018). The most recent ones include also images of the primary types to avoid long distance loans and unnecessary movement of these specimens.…”