Crematogaster atkinsoni helveola

Crematogaster atkinsoni helveola
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Crematogaster pilosa)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Crematogaster
Species:	Crematogaster atkinsoni helveola Wheeler, W.M., 1919

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

Nomenclature

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

• helveola. Crematogaster atkinsoni var. helveola Wheeler, W.M. 1919g: 109 (w.q.m.) U.S.A. (Georgia).
  • Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 922), 2+ paralectotype workers.
  • Type-locality: lectotype U.S.A.: Georgia, Okefenokee Swamp (J.C. Bradley); paralectotypes with same data.
  • Type-depositories: MCZC (lectotype); AMNH, LACM, MCZC (paralectotypes).
  • [Misspelled as haeveola by Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 197.]
  • [Note: original queen and males of the helveola type-series were incorrectly associated with the worker, and were subsequently referred to ashmeadi by Creighton, 1950a: 206, Smith, D.R. 1979: 1377.]
  • Subspecies of atkinsoni: Wheeler, W.M. 1932a: 9; Enzmann, J. 1946c: 93.
  • Junior synonym of atkinsoni: Creighton, 1950a: 207; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1377; Bolton, 1995b: 154.
  • Junior synonym of laeviuscula: Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 197.
  • Junior synonym of pilosa: Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 922.

References

• Morgan, C.E., Mackay, W.P. 2017. The North American Acrobat Ants of the hyperdiverse genus Crematogaster (Hymneoptera: Formicidae). Lambert Academic Publishing (PDF version, 532 pp.)
• Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B. 2022. Taxonomy in the phylogenomic era: species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships among North American ants of the Crematogaster scutellaris group (Formicidae: Hymenoptera), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194(3): 893–937 (doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab047).