Megalomyrmex bicolor

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Megalomyrmex bicolor
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Monomorium chilense)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Monomorium
Species: Megalomyrmex bicolor
Ettershank, 1965

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Monomorium chilense.

Nomenclature

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

  • bicolor. Megalomyrmex bicolor Ettershank, 1965: 55, figs. 1-5 (w.l.) CHILE. Combination in Nothidris: Snelling, R.R. 1975: 3; in Monomorium: Fernández, in Heterick, 2006: 79. [Junior secondary homonym of bicolor Emery, above.] Replacement name: chilensis Fernández, 2007b: 132. See also: Kempf, 1970b: 359.

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