Baroniurbania

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Baroniurbania
Lepisiota capensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Plagiolepidini
Genus: Lepisiota
Subgenus: Baroniurbania
Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990
Type species
Not required

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Specimen Label

This is currently a subgenus of Lepisiota. Please see Lepisiota for further information.

Nomenclature

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

  • BARONIURBANIA [subgenus of Lepisiota]
    • Baroniurbania Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990: 4. [Unnecessary replacement name for Acantholepis Mayr (junior homonym). Lepisiota is first available replacement name, see there and under Acantholepis.]
    • Baroniurbania junior synonym of Lepisiota: Bolton, 1994: 51.
    • Baroniurbania subgenus of Lepisiota: Dietrich, 2004: 324.


References

  • Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 51, Baroniurbania as junior synonym of Lepisiota)
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 102, Baroniurbania as junior synonym of Lepisiota)
  • Dietrich, C.O. 2004. Taxonomische Beitraege zur Myrmekofauna Jordaniens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Denisia 14: 319-344. (page 324, Baroniurbania as genus (in error?))
  • Pagliano, G.; Scaramozzino, P. 1990 [1989]. Elenco dei generi di Hymenoptera del mundo. Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 68: 1-210 (page 4, Baroniurbania; Unnecessary replacement name for Acantholepis Mayr (junior homonym) [Lepisiota is first available replacement name, see there and under Acantholepis.] )