Atta versicolor chisosensis

Atta versicolor chisosensis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Acromyrmex versicolor)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Acromyrmex
Species:	Atta versicolor chisosensis; Wheeler, W.M., 1907

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

Nomenclature

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

chisosensis. Atta (Moellerius) versicolor subsp. chisosensis Wheeler, W.M. 1907c: 705 (w.) U.S.A.
- Combination in Acromyrmex: Emery, 1924d: 351.
- Combination in Acromyrmex (Moellerius): Fowler, 1988: 291.
- Junior synonym of versicolor: Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 11.

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 54, catalogue)
Emery, C. 1922c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174B: 95-206 (page 351, Combination in Acromyrmex)
Fowler, H. G. 1988b. Taxa of the neotropical grass-cutting ants, Acromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini). Científica (Jaboticabal) 16: 281-295
Gamboa, G.J. 1975. Foraging and leaf-cutting of the desert gardening ant, Acromyrmex versicolor (Pergande) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Oecologia, 20:103-110.
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. 1907d. The fungus-growing ants of North America. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 23: 669-807. (page 705, worker described)