Stenamma westwoodi polonicum

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Stenamma westwoodi polonicum
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Stenamma debile)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Stenammini
Genus: Stenamma
Species: Stenamma westwoodi polonicum
Begdon, 1932

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

Nomenclature

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

  • polonicum. Stenamma westwoodi subsp. polonicum Begdon, 1932: 118, fig. 1 (w.) POLAND. Junior synonym of westwoodii: Pisarski, 1975: 15; of debile: DuBois, 1993: 314.

References

  • Begdon, J. 1932 [1931]. Wymiary i wskazniki niektórych znamion mrówki Stenamma Westw. westwoodi Arn. (Westw?) polonicum nov. subsp., znalezionej na Pomorzu. Spraw. Kom. Fizjogr. Mater. Fizjogr. Kraju 65: 113-119 (page 118, fig. 1 worker described)
  • DuBois, M. B. 1993. What's in a name? A clarification of Stenamma westwoodi, S. debile, and S. lippulum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Sociobiology 21: 299-334 (page 314, Junior synonym of debile)
  • Pisarski, B. 1975. Mrówki Formicoidea. Kat. Fauny Pol. 26: 3-85 (page 15, Junior synonym of westwoodii)