Tetraponera scotti
Tetraponera scotti | |
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Scientific classification (junior synonym of Tetraponera penzigi) | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Pseudomyrmecinae |
Genus: | Tetraponera |
Species: | Tetraponera scotti Donisthorpe, 1931 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Tetraponera penzigi.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- scotti. Tetraponera scotti Donisthorpe, 1931b: 498 (w.q.) ETHIOPIA.
- Junior synonym of penzigi: Ward, 2022: 35.
References
- Donisthorpe, H. 1931d. Descriptions of some new species of ants. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(8): 494-501 (page 498, worker, queen described)
- Ward, P. S. 2006. The ant genus Tetraponera in the Afrotropical region: synopsis of species groups and revision of the T. ambigua-group. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecologische Nachrichten. 8:119-130.
- Ward, P. S. 2022. The ant genus Tetraponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region: taxonomic review and key to species. Zootaxa 5102 (1):1-70 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5102.1.1).