Nomamyrmex esenbeckii mordax

Nomamyrmex esenbeckii mordax
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Nomamyrmex esenbeckii)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Nomamyrmex
Species:	Nomamyrmex esenbeckii mordax (Santschi, 1929)

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

Nomenclature

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

• mordax. Eciton (Holopone) crassicorne subsp. mordax Santschi, 1929a: 415, figs. d, h (w.) MEXICO.
  • Watkins, 1977a: 210 (m.).
  • Combination in Nomamyrmex: Borgmeier, 1953: 13.
  • Subspecies of crassicorne: Menozzi, 1935b: 189.
  • Junior synonym of wilsoni: Borgmeier, 1955: 139.
  • Subspecies of esenbeckii: Watkins, 1977a: 205; Bolton, 1995b: 292.
  • Junior synonym of esenbeckii: Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 19.

References

• Borgmeier, T. 1953. Vorarbeiten zu einer Revision der neotropischen Wanderameisen. Stud. Entomol. 2: 1-51 (page 13, Combination in Nomamyrmex)
• Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Stud. Entomol. 3: 1-720 (page 139, Junior synonym of wilsoni)
• Santschi, F. 1929a [1928]. Sur quelques nouvelles fourmis du Brésil (Hym. Form.). Dtsch. Entomol. Z.. 1928: 414-416 (page 415, figs. d, h worker described)
• Shattuck, S.O., Cover, S. 2016. Taxonomy of some little-understood North American ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4175: 10–22 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4175.1.2).
• Watkins, J. F., II. 1977a. The species and subspecies of Nomamyrmex (Dorylinae: Formicidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 50:203-214.(page 210, male described; page 205, Revived from synonymy as subspecies of esenbeckii)