“…Originally described as Formica melanocephalum (Fabricius, 1793). First published record Emery (1893) , cited also in Wheeler (1919) [ CAS ], Wheeler (1924) , Linsley and Usinger (1966) , Clark et al (1982) [ ICCDRS ], Lubin (1984) [ ICCDRS ], McMullen (1987 1990 , 1993 ), Abedrabbo (1994) [ ICCDRS ], Brandão and Paiva (1994) , de la Vega (1994) , Meier (1994) [ ICCDRS ], Peck et al (1998) , Pezzatti et al (1998) [ ICCDRS ], Roque-Albelo et al (2000) [ ICCDRS ], von Aesch and Cherix (2005) [ ICCDRS ], Boada (2005) [ ICCDRS ], von Aesch (2006) [ ICCDRS ], Causton et al (2006) , McMullen (2009) , Herrera and Causton (2010) [ ICCDRS ], McMullen (2012) , Chamorro et al (2012) [ ICCDRS ], Dekoninck et al (2014) [ ICCDRS , RBINS ], Wauters et al (2016) [ ICCDRS , RBINS ], Herrera (2015 , 2019 ), and Herrera et al (2020) [ ICCDRS , RBINS ].…”