Geognomicus wheeleri

Geognomicus wheeleri
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Dicroaspis cryptocera)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Dicroaspis
Species:	Geognomicus wheeleri Menozzi, 1924

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

Nomenclature

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

• wheeleri. Geognomicus wheeleri Menozzi, 1924b: 220, figs. 1-3 (w.) SÃO TOMÉ & PRÍNCIPE (Príncipe I.). Junior synonym of cryptocera: Bolton, 1981a: 58.

References

• Bolton, B. 1981a. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 42: 43-81.