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Donisthorpea
| Donisthorpea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Lasiini |
| Genus: | Donisthorpea Morice & Durrant, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Formica nigra, now Lasius niger
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Lasius.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- DONISTHORPEA [junior synonym of Lasius]
- Donisthorpea Morice & Durrant, 1915: 423. Type-species: Formica nigra, by original designation. [Unnecessary replacement name for Lasius Fabricius.]
- Donisthorpea as genus: Donisthorpe, 1915d: 184.
- Donisthorpea subgenus of Formicina: Emery, 1916a: 11; Emery, 1916b: 239.
- Donisthorpea subgenus of Acanthomyops: Donisthorpe, 1927b: 229; Donisthorpe, 1946g: 91.
- Donisthorpea junior synonym of Acanthomyops: Forel, 1916: 460; Morice & Durrant, 1917: 442; Donisthorpe, 1927b: 209.
- Donisthorpea junior synonym of Lasius: Wheeler, W.M. 1916k: 172; Wilson, 1955a: 11.
- [Lasius and Donisthorpea share the same type-species, synonymy is therefore absolute.]
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 97, Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Lasius [Unnecessary replacement name for Lasius Fabricius.] [Lasius and Donisthorpea share the same type-species, synonymy is therefore absolute.])
- Donisthorpe, H. 1915f. British ants, their life-history and classification. Plymouth: Brendon & Son Ltd., xv + 379 pp. (page 184, Donisthorpea as genus)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1927c. British ants, their life history and classification (2nd edn.). London: G. Routledge and Sons, xvi + 436 pp. (page 229, Donisthorpea as subgenus of Acanthomyops)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1927c. British ants, their life history and classification (2nd edn.). London: G. Routledge and Sons, xvi + 436 pp. (page 209, Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Acanthomyops)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 640, Donisthorpea in Formicinae, Acanthomyopsini; Donisthorpea as subgenus of Acanthomyops)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1946b. Formicidae, Stephens (1829). Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 58: 89-91 (page 91, Donisthorpea in Formicinae, Acanthomyopsini)
- Emery, C. 1916a [1915]. Fauna entomologica italiana. I. Hymenoptera.-Formicidae. Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 47: 79-275 (page 239, Donisthorpea as subgenus of Formicina)
- Emery, C. 1916b. Formiche d'Italia nuove o critiche. Rend. Sess. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna Cl. Sci. Fis. (n.s.) 20: 53-66 (page 11, Donisthorpea as subgenus of Formicina)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 226, Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Lasius)
- Forel, A. 1916. Fourmis du Congo et d'autres provenances récoltées par MM. Hermann Kohl, Luja, Mayné, etc. Rev. Suisse Zool. 24: 397-460 (page 460, Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Acanthomyops)
- Morice, F. D.; Durrant, J. H. 1915. The authorship and first publication of the "Jurinean" genera of Hymenoptera: being a reprint of a long-lost work by Panzer, with a translation into English, an introduction, and bibliographical and critical notes. Tra (page 423, Donisthorpea as genus)
- Morice, F. D.; Durrant, J. H. 1917. Further notes on the "Jurinean" genera of Hymenoptera, correcting errors and omissions in a paper on that subject published in Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1914, pp. 339-436. Trans. Entomol. Soc. Lond. 1916: 432-442 (page 442, Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Acanthomyops)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1916o. Questions of nomenclature connected with the ant genus Lasius and its subgenera. Psyche (Camb.) 23: 168-173 (page 172, Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Lasius)
- Wilson, E. O. 1955a. A monographic revision of the ant genus Lasius. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113: 1-201 (page 11, Donisthorpea as junior synonym of Lasius)