Alaopone oberthueri

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Alaopone oberthueri
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Dorylus orientalis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Dorylus
Species: Alaopone oberthueri
Emery, 1881

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

Nomenclature

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

  • oberthueri. Alaopone oberthueri Emery, 1881a: 274, fig. (w.) INDIA. Combination in Dorylus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 12. Junior synonym of curtisii: Emery, 1895j: 730.

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