Sima bifoveolata maculifrons

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Sima bifoveolata maculifrons
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tetraponera ambigua)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Pseudomyrmecinae
Genus: Tetraponera
Species: Sima bifoveolata maculifrons
Santschi, 1912

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

Nomenclature

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

  • maculifrons. Sima bifoveolata st. maculifrons Santschi, 1912b: 162 (w.) SOMALIA.
    • [Name misspelled as foveolata in original description.]
    • Combination in Sima (Tetraponera): Emery, 1921f: 27.
    • Combination in Tetraponera: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 796.
    • Junior synonym of ambigua: Ward, 2006: 123; Ward, 2022: 8.

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