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Aphantolepis
| Aphantolepis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Tapinomini |
| Genus: | Aphantolepis Wheeler, W.M., 1930 |
| Type species | |
| Aphantolepis quadricolor, now Technomyrmex quadricolor
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Technomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- APHANTOLEPIS [junior synonym of Technomyrmex]
- Aphantolepis Wheeler, W.M. 1930d: 44. Type-species: Aphantolepis quadricolor, by monotypy.
- Aphantolepis junior synonym of Technomyrmex: Brown, 1953h: 5.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 26, Aphantolepis as junior synonym of Technomyrmex)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 92, Aphantolepis as junior synonym of Technomyrmex)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953e. Three new ants related to Strumigenys louisianae Roger. Psyche (Camb.) 60: 1-5 (page 5, Aphantolepis as junior synonym of Technomyrmex)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 624, Aphantolepis in Formicinae, Prenolepidini)
- Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21: 1-181 (page 153, Aphantolepis as junior synonym of Technomyrmex)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1930e. Two new genera of ants from Australia and the Philippines. Psyche (Camb.) 37: 41-47 (page 44, Aphantolepis in Formicinae, Lasiini)