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Brachymyrmex pictus balboae
| Brachymyrmex pictus balboae | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Brachymyrmex pictus) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Myrmelachistini |
| Genus: | Brachymyrmex |
| Species: | Brachymyrmex pictus balboae Wheeler, W.M., 1942 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Brachymyrmex pictus.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- balboae. Brachymyrmex pictus subsp. balboae Wheeler, W.M. 1942: 253 (w.q.m.) PANAMA.
- Junior synonym of pictus: Ortiz-Sepulveda et al., 2019: 79.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 81, catalogue)
- Ortiz-Sepulveda, C.M., Van Bocxlaer, B., Meneses, A.D., Fernández, F. 2019. Molecular and morphological recognition of species boundaries in the neglected ant genus Brachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): toward a taxonomic revision. Organisms Diversity & Evolution (DOI 10.1007/s13127-019-00406-2).
- Wheeler, W. M. 1942. Studies of Neotropical ant-plants and their ants. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 90: 1-262 (page 253, worker, queen, male described)