Aphaenogaster pallida lesbica

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Aphaenogaster pallida lesbica
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Aphaenogaster subterranea)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Aphaenogaster
Species: Aphaenogaster pallida lesbica
Forel, 1913

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Specimen Labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • lesbica. Aphaenogaster pallida var. lesbica Forel, 1913d: 429 (w.) GREECE.
    • Type-material: holotype (?) worker.
    • [Note: no indication of number of specimens is given.]
    • Type-locality: none given (U. & J. Sahlberg).
    • [Note: type-locality presumably Greece: Lesbos I.]
    • Type-depository: MHNG.
    • Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921f: 59.
    • Subspecies of pallida: Emery, 1921f: 59; Finzi, 1930a: 152.
    • Status as species: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 53; Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 270 (in key); Bolton, 1995b: 70; Petrov, 2006: 91 (in key); Vonshak, et al. 2009: 41; Karaman, M.G. 2011b: 18; Legakis, 2011: 7; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 465; Borowiec, L. 2014: 14; Lebas, et al. 2016: 260; Salata & Borowiec, 2018c: 42.
    • Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster subterranea: Zięcina et al., 2024: 256.

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