Myrmica rubra brevinodis

Myrmica rubra brevinodis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Myrmica incompleta)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Myrmicini
Genus:	Myrmica
Species:	Myrmica rubra brevinodis Emery, 1895

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

Nomenclature

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

• brevinodis. Myrmica rubra subsp. brevinodis Emery, 1895c: 312 (w.m.) U.S.A.
  • Wheeler, W.M. 1907b: 74 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1953a: 116 (l.).
  • Subspecies of rubra: Forel, 1904a: 154; Wheeler, W.M. 1904e: 303; Wheeler, W.M. 1906b: 6; Wheeler, W.M. 1907b: 73 (redescription); Dennis, 1938: 288.
  • Status as species: Wheeler, W.M. 1914b: 53 (in text); Wheeler, W.M. 1916m: 587; Wheeler, W.M. 1917a: 502; Wheeler, W.M. 1917e: 16; Weber, 1939b: 150; Cole, 1942: 368; Weber, 1950b: 189 (redescription); Creighton, 1950a: 95; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 789; Cole, 1953d: 243.
  • Senior synonym of canadensis, subalpina: Weber, 1950b: 189.
  • Junior synonym of incompleta: Francoeur & Béique, 1966: 141.