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Epiatta
| Epiatta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Epiatta Borgmeier, 1950 |
| Type species | |
| Oecodoma laevigata, now Atta laevigata
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Atta.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- EPIATTA [junior synonym of Atta]
- Epiatta Borgmeier, 1950d: 246 [as subgenus of Atta]. Type-species: Oecodoma laevigata, by original designation.
- Epiatta junior synonym of Atta: Weber, 1958a: 8.
- Epiatta junior synonym of Neoatta: Borgmeier, 1959b: 358.
- Epiatta junior synonym of Atta: Bolton, 1994: 105.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Epiatta as junior synonym of Atta)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 198, Epiatta as junior synonym of Atta)
- Borgmeier, T. 1950d. Estudos sôbre Atta (Hym. Formicidae). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz Rio J. 48: 239-263. (page 246, Epiatta as subgenus of Atta)
- Borgmeier, T. 1959b. Revision der Gattung Atta Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Stud. Entomol. (n.s.) 2: 321-390 (page 358, Epiatta as junior synonym of Neoatta)
- Weber, N. A. 1958a. Nomenclatural notes on Proatta and Atta (Hym.: Formicidae). Entomol. News 69: 7-13 (page 8, Epiatta as junior synonym of Atta)