Crematogaster biroi Emery

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Crematogaster biroi
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Crematogaster emeryi)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Crematogaster
Species: Crematogaster biroi
Emery, 1900

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Crematogaster emeryi.

Nomenclature

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

  • biroi. Crematogaster biroi Emery, 1900c: 332, pl. 8, figs. 39-41 (w.) NEW GUINEA (Papua New Guinea).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: Papua New Guinea (“Nova-Guinea, Colonia Germanica”): (no further data) (L. Biró).
    • Type-depository: MSNG (perhaps also HNHM).
    • [Junior primary homonym of Crematogaster biroi Mayr, 1897: 428.]
    • Replacement name: Crematogaster emeryi Forel, 1907a: 25.

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