Brachymyrmex longicornis hemiops

Brachymyrmex longicornis hemiops
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Brachymyrmex aphidicola)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Myrmelachistini
Genus:	Brachymyrmex
Species:	Brachymyrmex longicornis hemiops Santschi, 1923

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

Nomenclature

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

• hemiops. Brachymyrmex longicornis var. hemiops Santschi, 1923b: 668, fig. 20 (w.) BRAZIL.
  • Junior synonym of aphidicola: Ortiz-Sepulveda et al., 2019: 18.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 82, catalogue)
• Ortiz-Sepulveda, C.M., Van Bocxlaer, B., Meneses, A.D., Fernández, F. 2019. Molecular and morphological recognition of species boundaries in the neglected ant genus Brachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): toward a taxonomic revision. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19, 447–542 (doi:10.1007/s13127-019-00406-2).
• Santschi, F. 1923b. Revue des fourmis du genre Brachymyrmex Mayr. An. Mus. Nac. Hist. Nat. B. Aires 31: 650-678 (page 668, fig. 20 worker described)