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Lepidopone
| Lepidopone | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
| Tribe: | Ponerini |
| Genus: | Lepidopone Bernard, 1953 |
| Type species | |
| Lepidopone lamottei (junior synonym of Asphinctopone silvestrii)
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Asphinctopone.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- LEPIDOPONE [junior synonym of Asphinctopone]
- Lepidopone Bernard, 1953b: 207. Type-species: Lepidopone lamottei (junior synonym of Asphinctopone silvestrii), by monotypy.
- Lepidopone junior synonym of Asphinctopone: Brown, 1953h: 2.
References
- Bernard, F. 1953a. Les fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Pp. 121-250 in: Bernard, F. (ed.) Mission scientifique au Tassili des Ajjer (1949). Volume I. Recherches zoologiques et médicales. Paris: P. Lechevalier, 302 pp. (page 207, Lepidopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 160, Lepidopone as junior synonym of Asphinctopone)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953h. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part II. Breviora 18: 1-8. (page 2, Lepidopone as junior synonym of Asphinctopone)