Myrmica aspersa

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Myrmica aspersa
Scientific classification (junior homonym, replaced by Myrmica ademonia)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Myrmicini
Genus: Myrmica
Species: Myrmica aspersa
Kupyanskaya, 1990

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Myrmica ademonia.

Nomenclature

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

  • aspersa. Myrmica aspersa Kupyanskaya, 1990: 105, figs. 16, 17, 18 (w.q.m.) RUSSIA. [Junior primary homonym of Myrmica aspersa Smith, F. 1865: 72, above.] Replacement name: ademonia Bolton, 1995b: 277.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 277, Replacement name: ademonia)
  • Kupyanskaya, A. N. 1990a. Ants of the Far Eastern USSR. Vladivostok: Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 258 pp. (page 105, figs. 16, 17, 18 worker, queen, male described)