Bothriomyrmex adriacus ionius

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Bothriomyrmex adriacus ionius
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Bothriomyrmex communista)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Genus: Bothriomyrmex
Species: Bothriomyrmex adriacus ionius
Emery, 1925

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

Nomenclature

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

  • ionius. Bothriomyrmex adriacus subsp. ionius Emery, 1925e: 16 (w.) GREECE.
    • Junior synonym of adriaca: Agosti & Collingwood, 1987a: 57.

References

  • Agosti, D.; Collingwood, C. A. 1987a. A provisional list of the Balkan ants (Hym. Formicidae) and a key to the worker caste. I. Synonymic list. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 60: 51-62 (page 57, junior synonym of adriacus)
  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 81, catalogue)
  • Emery, C. 1925c. Les espèces européennes et orientales du genre Bothriomyrmex. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 56: 5-22 (page 16, worker described)
  • Seifert, B. 2012. A review of the West Palaearctic species of the ant genus Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869. Myrmecological News 17: 91-104.