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Plagiolepis maura
| Plagiolepis pallescens maura | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Plagiolepis barbara) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Plagiolepidini |
| Genus: | Plagiolepis |
| Species: | Plagiolepis maura Santschi, 1920 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Plagiolepis barbara.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- maura. Plagiolepis maura Santschi, 1920g: 169, fig. 1M,N (w.q.m.) MOROCCO, TUNISIA, ALGERIA.
- Subspecies of pallescens: Emery, 1924a: 8; Emery, 1925b: 21; Wheeler, W.M. 1927g: 114; Menozzi, 1932e: 453; Menozzi, 1934: 163; Finzi, 1936: 184; Santschi, 1936c: 206; Menozzi, 1940: 270; Donisthorpe, 1942a: 31; Báez & Ortega, 1978: 190; Bolton, 1995b: 335; Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor, 2011: 206 (redescription); Kiran & Karaman, 2012: 14.
- Status as species: Bernard, 1945: 136; Wellenius, 1955: 13; Barquin Diez, 1981: 381; Collingwood, 1985: 297; Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 362; Mohamed, Zalat, et al. 2001: 47; Cagniant, 2006a: 194; Espadaler, 2007: 121; Salata, Borowiec & Radchenko, 2018: 820.
- Junior synonym of barbara: Seifert, 2020: 195.
References
- Borowiec, L., Salata, S. 2020. Review of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Jordan. Annals of the Upper Silesian Museum in Bytom, Entomology 29 (online 2): 1-26 (doi:10.5281/zenodo.3733156).
- Emery, C. 1924a. Formiche della Cirenaica raccolte dal Dott. Enrico Festa e dal Prof. Filippo Silvestri. Boll. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 56:6-11. (page 8, Subspecies/stirps of pallescens)
- Espadaler, X. 2007. The ants of El Hierro (Canary Islands). Pages 113-127 in R. R. Snelling, B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward, editors. Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E. O. Wilson - 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, Gainesville, FL. 80:690 pp.
- Santschi, F. 1920g. Cinq nouvelles notes sur les fourmis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 53:163-186. (page 169, fig. 1 worker, queen, male described)
- Santschi, F. 1936c. Liste et descriptions de fourmis du Maroc. Bull. Soc. Sci. Nat. Maroc. 16:198-210. (page 206, Subspecies/stirps of pallescens)
- Seifert, B. 2020. Revision of the Plagiolepis schmitzii group with description of Pl. invadens sp. nov. – a new invasive supercolonial species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 67(2): 183–196 (doi:10.3897/dez.67.53199).
- Sharaf, M., Aldawood, A., Taylor, B. 2011. The formicine ant genus Plagiolepis Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Arabian Peninsula, with description of two new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society. 137:(1+2) 203-215.