Alfaria emeryi

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Alfaria emeryi
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Alfaria minuta)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Alfaria
Species: Alfaria emeryi
Forel, 1901

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Alfaria minuta.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • emeryi. Alfaria emeryi Forel, 1901f: 326 (w.) COLOMBIA.
    • Type-material: holotype (?) worker.
    • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
    • Type-locality: Colombia: foot of Sierra Nevada de Santa-Marta, Hacienda de l’Esperanza, nr Dibulla (A. Forel).
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 46; Borgmeier, 1949: 205 (in key).
    • Junior synonym of minuta: Brown, in Borgmeier, 1957: 115; Brown, 1958g: 228, 317; Kempf, 1972a: 113; Brandão & Lattke, 1990: 489; Lattke, 1992a: 127; Bolton, 1995b: 209; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 10.

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