Acromyrmex octospinosus ekchuah

Acromyrmex octospinosus ekchuah
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Acromyrmex octospinosus)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Acromyrmex
Species:	Acromyrmex octospinosus ekchuah Wheeler, W.M., 1937

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

Nomenclature

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

• ekchuah. Acromyrmex octospinosus subsp. ekchuah Wheeler, W.M. 1937c: 73 (s.) MEXICO (Yucatan).
  • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated, “numerous”).
  • Type-localities: Mexico: Yucatan, Oxkutzab, Puz Cave (A.S. Pearse) (invalid restriction of type-locality by Kempf, 1972a: 14; no lectotype designated), Mexico: Yucatan, Oxkutzab, Gongora Cave (A.S. Pearse), Yucatan, Oxkutzab, Tiz Cave (A.S. Pearse), Yucatan, Merida, San Bulha Cave (A.S. Pearse), Yucatan, Calcehtok, Xkyc Cave (A.S. Pearse), Yucatan, Tizcacal, Luchil Cave (A.S. Pearse).
  • Type-depository: MCZC.
  • Subspecies of octospinosus: Wheeler, W.M. 1938: 252 (footnote); Kempf, 1972a: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 55.
  • Junior synonym of octospinosus: Mera‐Rodríguez et al. 2024: 12.
  • Distribution: Mexico.

References

• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 55, catalogue)
• Mera‐Rodríguez, D., Fernández‐Marín, H., Rabeling, C. 2024. Phylogenomic approach to integrative taxonomy resolves a century‐old taxonomic puzzle and the evolutionary history of the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex. Systematic Entomology, 1-26 (doi:10.1111/syen.12665).
• Wheeler, W. M. 1937c. Mosaics and other anomalies among ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 95 pp. (page 73, soldier described)