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Acromyrmex octospinosus volcanus
| Acromyrmex octospinosus volcanus | |
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| 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 volcanus Wheeler, W.M., 1937
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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.
- volcanus. Acromyrmex octospinosus subsp. volcanus Wheeler, W.M. 1937c: 73 (s.) COSTA RICA.
- Type-material: 7 syntype workers.
- Type-locality: Costa Rica: Volcán de Barba, Finca Hamburgo (C.W. Dodge).
- Type-depository: MCZC.
- Subspecies of octospinosus: Kempf, 1972a: 14; Bolton, 1995b: 57 (error).
- Status as species: Wetterer, 1993: 66.
- Junior synonym of octospinosus: Mera‐Rodríguez et al. 2024: 12.
- Distribution: Costa Rica.
References
- Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
- Knowlton, E. D. and A. Kamath. 2018. Ants Do Not Traverse the Silk of Adult Female Nephila clavipes (Linnaeus) Webs. Neotropical Entomology. 47:780-785. doi:10.1007/s13744-018-0631-6
- 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).
- Yanoviak, S.P., Frederick, D.N. 2014. Water surface locomotion in tropical canopy ants. Journal of Experimental Biology 217, 2163–2170 (doi:10.1242/jeb.101600).