Aphaenogaster funkikoensis

Aphaenogaster funkikoensis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Aphaenogaster lepida)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Aphaenogaster
Species:	Aphaenogaster funkikoensis; Creighton, 1950

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

Nomenclature

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

funkikoensis. Aphaenogaster funkikoensis Creighton, 1950a: 152 (footnote). Unnecessary (third) replacement name for silvestrii Wheeler, W.M. 1929g: 37. [Junior primary homonym of silvestrii Menozzi, 1929b: 282.] Junior synonym of lepida (first replacement name): Brown, 1954d: 10.

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 69, catalogue)
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954d. The synonymy of the ant Aphaenogaster lepida Wheeler. Pan-Pac. Entomol. 30: 10. (page 10, junior synonym of lepida (first replacement name))
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104: 1-585 (page 152, (footnote) ; Aphaenogaster)
Menozzi, C. 1929c. Una nuova specie di Formica del genere Aphaenogaster Mayr del Nord America. Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agrar. R. Sc. Super. Agric. 22: 282-284 (page 282, junior primary homonym of silvestrii)
Wheeler, W. M. 1929h. Ants collected by Professor F. Silvestri in Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and the Philippines. Boll. Lab. Zool. Gen. Agrar. R. Sc. Super. Agric. 24: 27-64 (page 37, unnecessary (third) replacement name for silvestrii)