Granisolenopsis
Granisolenopsis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Solenopsidini |
Genus: | Granisolenopsis Kusnezov, 1956 |
Type species | |
Solenopsis granivora |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Solenopsis.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- GRANISOLENOPSIS [junior synonym of Solenopsis]
- Granisolenopsis Kusnezov, 1956: 26 [as subgenus of Solenopsis] (diagnosis in key). Type-species: Solenopsis (Granisolenopsis) granivora, by original designation.
- [Granisolenopsis also described as new by Kusnezov, 1957a: 277.]
- Granisolenopsis junior synonym of Solenopsis: Ettershank, 1966: 134.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 218, Granisolenopsis as junior synonym of Solenopsis)
- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 134, Granisolenopsis as junior synonym of Solenopsis)
- Kusnezov, N. 1956a. Claves para la identificación de las hormigas de la fauna argentina. Idia 104- 105: 1-56 (page 26, Granisolenopsis as subgenus of Solenopsis)
- Kusnezov, N. 1957b. Die Solenopsidinen-Gattungen von Südamerika (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zool. Anz. 158: 266-280 (page 277, Granisolenopsis also described as new)