Amblyopone tropicalis

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Amblyopone tropicalis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Fulakora orizabana)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
Tribe: Amblyoponini
Genus: Fulakora
Species: Amblyopone tropicalis
Brown, 1962

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

Nomenclature

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

  • tropicalis. Amblyopone tropicalis Brown, 1962a: 73 (w.q.) PANAMA. Junior synonym of orizabana: Lattke, 1991c: 5.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 63, catalogue)
  • Brown, W. L., Jr. 1962a. A new ant of the genus Amblyopone from Panama. Psyche (Camb.) 69: 73-76 (page 73, worker, queen described)
  • Lattke, J. E. 1991d. Studies of neotropical Amblyopone Erichson (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contr. Sci. (Los Angel.) 428: 1-7 (page 5, Junior synonym of orizabana)