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Euponera obsoleta
| Euponera obsoleta | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Cryptopone guatemalensis) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Cryptopone |
| Species: | Euponera obsoleta Menozzi, 1931 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Cryptopone guatemalensis.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- obsoleta. Euponera (Trachymesopus) obsoleta Menozzi, 1931d: 196, fig. 5 (w.) COSTA RICA.
- Type-material: lectotype worker (by designation of Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 352).
- [Note: several other syntype workers exist, perhaps best regarded as paralectotypes as all specimens were originally from a single series.]
- Type-locality: Costa Rica: Vara Blanca, 2000 m., between Barba Volcano and Poas (H. Schmidt).
- Type-depositories: NHMB (lectotype); IEUB, DEIM (paralectotypes).
- Combination in Trachymesopus: Kempf, 1960f: 424;
- combination in Pachycondyla: Brown, in Bolton, 1995b: 308;
- combination in Cryptopone: Longino, 2006b: 135.
- Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 251.
- Junior synonym of gilva: Longino, 2006b: 135; Mackay & Mackay, 2010: 352.
- Junior synonym of guatemalensis: Branstetter & Longino, 2022: 17.