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Aphaenogaster subterranea valida
| Aphaenogaster subterranea valida | |
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| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Aphaenogaster occidentalis) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Stenammini |
| Genus: | Aphaenogaster |
| Species: | Aphaenogaster subterranea valida Wheeler, W.M., 1915
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This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Aphaenogaster occidentalis.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- valida. Aphaenogaster subterranea subsp. valida Wheeler, W.M. 1915b: 411 (w.q.m.) U.S.A.
- Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Emery, 1921f: 60.
- Subspecies of subterranea: Wheeler, W.M. 1917a: 516; Emery, 1921f: 60; Creighton, 1950a: 150; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 797; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1362; Bolton, 1995b: 74; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 77.
- Junior synonym of subterranea: Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 13.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 74, catalogue)
- Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 94: 1-94 + 7 (page 60, combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma))
- Shattuck, S.O., Cover, S. 2016. Taxonomy of some little-understood North American ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4175: 10–22 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.2).
- Wheeler, W. M. 1915b. Some additions to the North American ant-fauna. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 34: 389-421.(page 411, worker, queen, male described)