Gnamptogenys soror

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Gnamptogenys soror
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Alfaria caelata)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Alfaria
Species: Gnamptogenys soror
Kempf & Brown, 1968

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

Nomenclature

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

  • soror. Gnamptogenys soror Kempf & Brown, 1968: 90 (w.) BRAZIL (Pará).
    • Type-material: holotype worker, 1 paratype worker.
    • Type-locality: Brazil: Pará, Iriboca, nr Belém, Pirelli Rubber Plantation, 23.viii.1962 (P.F. Darlington); paratype with same data.
    • Type-depositories: DZSP (holotype); MCZC (paratype).
    • Status as species: Kempf, 1972a: 115.
    • Junior synonym of caelata: Lattke, 1992a: 126; Bolton, 1995b: 210; Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 10.

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