Cosmaecetes homalinus

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Cosmaecetes homalinus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Dorylus fulvus)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dorylinae
Genus: Dorylus
Species: Cosmaecetes homalinus
Spinola, 1851

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

Nomenclature

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

  • homalinus. Cosmaecetes homalinus Spinola, 1851b: 55 (w.) MOROCCO. [Also described as new by Spinola, 1853: 71.] Combination in Typhlopone: Smith, F. 1858b: 111; in Dorylus: Dalla Torre, 1893: 11. Junior synonym of juvenculus: Emery, 1893h: 1.

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