Leptothorax nitens occidentalis

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Leptothorax nitens occidentalis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Temnothorax andrei)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Temnothorax
Species: Leptothorax nitens occidentalis
Wheeler, W.M., 1903

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

Nomenclature

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

  • occidentalis. Leptothorax nitens subsp. occidentalis Wheeler, W.M. 1903c: 245 (w.) U.S.A. Junior synonym of nitens: Creighton, 1950a: 265; of andrei: Ward, 2005: 15.

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