Alfaria emeryi

Alfaria emeryi
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Alfaria minuta)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ectatomminae
Tribe:	Ectatommini
Genus:	Alfaria
Species:	Alfaria emeryi Forel, 1901

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

Nomenclature

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

• emeryi. Alfaria emeryi Forel, 1901f: 326 (w.) COLOMBIA.
  • Type-material: holotype (?) worker.
  • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
  • Type-locality: Colombia: foot of Sierra Nevada de Santa-Marta, Hacienda de l’Esperanza, nr Dibulla (A. Forel).
  • Type-depository: MHNG.
  • Status as species: Emery, 1911d: 46; Borgmeier, 1949: 205 (in key).
  • Junior synonym of minuta: Brown, in Borgmeier, 1957: 115; Brown, 1958g: 228, 317; Kempf, 1972a: 113; Brandão & Lattke, 1990: 489; Lattke, 1992a: 127; Bolton, 1995b: 209; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 10.

References

• 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).