Cerapachys aegyptiacus

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Cerapachys aegyptiacus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Lioponera longitarsus)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Lioponera
Species: Cerapachys aegyptiacus
Brown, 1975

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

Nomenclature

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

  • aegyptiacus. Cerapachys aegyptiacus Brown, 1975: 22.
    • Unnecessary replacement name for Lioponera cooperi Donisthorpe, 1939a: 255.
    • Junior synonym of longitarsus: Bolton, 1995b: 142.

References

  • Arnold, G. 1915. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part I. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 14: 1-159 (page 14, Junior secondary homonym of Cerapachys cooperi)
  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 142, Junior synonym of longitarsus: new synonymy, catalogue)
  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 142, catalogue)
  • Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1 1: 1-115 (page 22, Replacement name for Lioponera cooperi; Cerapachys)
  • Donisthorpe, H. 1939a. The genus Lioponera Mayr (Formicidae, Cerapachyinae), with descriptions of two new species and an ergatandromorph. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(3): 252-257 (page 255, Lioponera cooperi described)