List of South American species of Pogonomyrmex

Taxonomy follows Bolton (1995, 2012)
Note that RAJ-names and new synonomies are unpublished manuscript names that are not to be used


   P. andinus-group  

    P. sp. RAJ-alti Johnson (worker, alate queen, male to be described)
    P. andinus Kusnezov, 1951 (w.q.m)(queen is brachypterous) 
   *P. sp. RAJ-apte Johnson (worker, ergatoid queen, ergatoid male to be described)
   *P. sp. RAJ-gran Johnson (worker, male to be described)

    P. sp. RAJ-koll Johnson (worker, queen, male to be described)
   *P. sp. RAJ-lagu Johnson (worker, ergatoid queen, ergatoid male to be described)
    P. longibarbis Gallardo, 1931 (w)(brachypterous queen to be described)
    P. sp. RAJ-pulc Santschi, 1925 (w)
    P. sp. RAJ-taf Johnson (worker, alate queen, male to be described)

   P. angustus-group (diagnosis of angustus-group species)
    *P. angustus Mayr, 1870 (w.q.m)
    *P. laevigatus Santschi, 1921 (w.m)
    *P. odoratus Kusnezov, 1949 (w.q.m)


  P. brevibarbis-group
    P. brevibarbis Emery, 1906 (w.q.m)

    P. sp. RAJ-care Santschi, 1922 (w.q.m)
   *P. sp. RAJ-erem Johnson (worker, large ergatoid queen, small ergatoid queen, and male to be described)

   P. sp. RAJ-erga Johnson (worker, ergatoid queen to be described)

   P. sp. RAJ-long Santschi, 1917 (w) (male to be described)

   P. sp. RAJ-nige Santschi, 1925 (w.m)
   P. sp. RAJ-silv Emery, 1906 (w) (queen and male to be described)
  

  P. coarctatus-group  (diagnosis of coarctatus-group species)

   *P. coarctatus Mayr, 1868 (w.q.m)

   *P. lobatus Santschi, 1921 (w) (queen and male to be described)

   *P. marcusi Kusnezov, 1951 (w.q.m)

   *P. micans Forel, 1914 (w.m) (queen to be described)

  P. cunicularius-group (diagnosis of cunicularius-group species)

   *P. cunicularius Mayr, 1887 (w.q.m) (queen is ergatoid)

   *P. sp. RAJ-penc Forel, 1914 (w.m) (ergatoid queen to be described)

   *P. sp. RAJ-serp Santschi, 1922 (w) (ergatoid queen to be described)

  P. inermis-group (diagnosis of inermis-group species)

   *P. bispinosus (Spinola, 1851) (w.q.m)

   *P. inermis Forel, 1914 (w) (queen and male to be described)

   *P. uruguayensis Mayr, 1887 (w) (queen and male to be described)

  P. laticeps-group (diagnosis of laticeps-group species)
   *P. laticeps Santschi, 1922 (w.q) (queen dimorphic with brachypterous and ergatoid queens)(male to be described)

   *P. mendozanus Cuezzo & Claver 2009
   *P. sp. RAJ-tino Johnson (worker and dealate queen to be described)

  P. mayri-group (diagnosis of mayri-group species)
   *P. mayri Forel, 1899 (w.q.m) (queen is ergatoid)

  P. naegelii-group
   *P. abdominalis Santschi, 1929 (w.q)
   *P. naegelii Forel, in Emery 1878 (w.q.m) (queen dimorphic with alate and ergatoid queens)
   *P. tenuipubens
Santschi, 1936 (w)
  
  *P. sylvestris-group (diagnosis of sylvestris-group species)
   *P. stefani Lattke, 2006 (w.m)

   *P. striatinodis Fernández & Palacio, 1997 (w)

   *P. sylvestris Lattke, 1990 (w)

   P. rastratus-group
     P. sp. RAJ-arau Johnson (worker and alate queen to be described)

     P. atratus Santschi, 1922 (w)
    P. carbonarius Mayr, 1868 (w) (queen and male to be described)
   *P. catanlilensis Gallardo, 1931 (w) (queen to be described)
   *P. sp. RAJ-inte Menozzi, 1935 (w)

    P. sp. RAJ-mapu Johnson (worker and dealate queen to be described)
    P. sp. RAJ-neuq Santschi, 1922 (w.q.m)
   *P. pronotalis Santschi, 1922 (w)
    P. rastratus Mayr, 1868 (w) (queen, male to be described)
    P. sp. RAJ-semi Emery, 1906 (w.q)
    P. sp. RAJ-sanm Kusnezov, 1953 (w)
    P. sp. RAJ-sant Johnson (worker, queen, and male to be described)
    *P. vermiculatus Emery, 1906 (w) (queen and male to be described)
    P. sp. RAJ-weis Santschi, 1922 (w.q.m)


   Unplaced species

     P. bispinous spinolae Emery, 1906
     P. meridionalis
Kusnezov, 1951

   *P. theresiae Forel, 1899 (w)

    P. vermiculatus chubutensis Forel, 1913