Brachymyrmex laevis

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Brachymyrmex laevis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Brachymyrmex patagonicus)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Myrmelachistini
Genus: Brachymyrmex
Species: Brachymyrmex laevis
Emery, 1895

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Specimen Labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • laevis. Brachymyrmex laevis Emery, 1895d: 216 (w.) CHILE.
    • Emery, 1906c: 178 (q.m.).
    • [Note: in the literature sometimes misspelled as levis, for example Emery, 1906c: 178; Santschi, 1923b: 659.]
    • Junior synonym of patagonicus: Ortiz-Sepulveda et al., 2019: 75.
    • See also: Forel, 1908c: 400; Forel, 1912i: 62.

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