Plagiolepis maura ancyrensis

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Plagiolepis maura ancyrensis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Plagiolepis pallescens)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Plagiolepidini
Genus: Plagiolepis
Species: Plagiolepis maura ancyrensis
Santschi, 1920

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Specimen Labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • ancyrensis. Plagiolepis maura var. ancyrensis Santschi, 1920g: 171, fig. 1 (w.q.) TURKEY.
    • [Misspelled as angyrensis by Santschi, 1921a: 114.]
    • Finzi, 1936: 184 (m.).
    • Subspecies of maura: Santschi, 1921a: 114; Emery, 1921b: 208.
    • Subspecies of pallescens: Emery, 1925b: 21; Menozzi, 1933b: 78; Finzi, 1936: 184.
    • Status as species: Tohmé, G. 1969: 10; Kugler, J. 1988: 258; Bolton, 1995b: 334; Legakis, 2011: 25; Borowiec, L. & Salata, 2012: 528; Borowiec, L. 2014: 145; Pashaei Rad et al., 2018: 7.
    • Junior synonym of pallescens: Salata, Borowiec & Radchenko, 2018: 812.

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