Alfaria bufonis

Alfaria bufonis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Alfaria simulans)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ectatomminae
Tribe:	Ectatommini
Genus:	Alfaria
Species:	Alfaria bufonis Mann, 1926

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

Nomenclature

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

• bufonis. Alfaria bufonis Mann, 1926: 101 (w.) MEXICO (Oaxaca).
  • Type-material: holotype worker.
  • Type-locality: Mexico: Oaxaca, Choapam, 28.vii.1894, in stomach of toad Bufo valliceps (Nelson & Goldman).
  • Type-depository: USNM.
  • Combination in Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 227;
  • combination in Alfaria: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 10.
  • Status as species: Borgmeier, 1949: 205 (in key); Brown, 1958g: 227, 317; Kempf, 1972a: 112; Bolton, 1995b: 208; Lattke, 1992a: 126; Lattke, et al. 2007: 264 (in key).
  • Junior synonym of simulans: Lattke & Delsinne, 2016: 142; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 10.

References

• Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362 (page 227, Combination in Gnamptogenys)
• Camacho, G.P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R., Longino, J.T., Schultz, T.R., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among Ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(1): 5; 1–20 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab026).
• Lattke, J.E. 1995. Revision of the ant genus Gnamptogenys in the New World (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Hym. Res. 4: 137-193 (page 160, figs. 43, 44 worker, male described)
• Lattke, J.E. & Delsinne, T. 2016. Revisionary and natural history notes on some species of the genus Gnamptogenys Roger, 1863. Myrmecological News 22: 141-147.
• Mann, W. M. 1926. Some new neotropical ants. Psyche (Camb.) 33: 97-107. (page 101, worker described)