Santschia
Santschia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Solenopsidini |
Genus: | Santschia Forel, 1905 |
Type species | |
Santschia intrudens, now Monomorium santschii |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Monomorium.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- SANTSCHIA [junior synonym of Monomorium]
- Santschia Forel, 1906a: 65 (in text). Type-species: Santschia intrudens Forel, 1906a: 65 (automatic absolute junior synonym of Wheeleria santschii Forel, 1905b: 171, as both names are based on the same type-material).
- Taxonomic history
- [First replacement name for Wheeleria Forel, 1905b: 171; junior homonym of Wheeleria Tutt, 1905: 37 (Lepidoptera).]
- [Note: Forel, 1906a: 64, writes, “je me réserve, au cas où le nom de Wheeleria aurait été déjà employé de donner celui de Santschia intrudens à la Fourmi parasite découverte par M. Santschi.” A unique case because while the genus-group name Wheeleria Forel, 1905b: 171 is a junior homonym, its species-group name santschii is not. Therefore Santschia becomes the first replacement name for Wheeleria, while intrudens becomes an absolute junior synonym of santschii.]
- Santschia as junior synonym of Monomorium: not previously recorded.