Crematogaster minutissima smithi

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Crematogaster minutissima smithi
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Crematogaster missouriensis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Crematogaster
Species: Crematogaster minutissima smithi
Creighton, 1950

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Specimen labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • thoracica. Crematogaster (Orthocrema) minutissima subsp. thoracica Creighton, 1939b: 138 (w.) U.S.A.
    • [Junior primary homonym of Crematogaster (Atopogyne) africana st. thoracica Santschi, 1921c: 118.]
    • Replacement name: Crematogaster (Orthocrema) minutissima subsp. smithi Creighton, 1950a: 205.
  • smithi. Crematogaster (Orthocrema) minutissima subsp. smithi Creighton, 1950a: 205.
    • Replacement name for Crematogaster (Orthocrema) minutissima subsp. thoracica Creighton, 1939b: 138. [Junior primary homonym of Crematogaster (Atopogyne) africana st. thoracica Santschi, 1921c: 118.]
    • Subspecies of minutissima: Smith, M.R. 1951a: 808; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1380; Bolton, 1995b: 162; Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 95.
    • Junior synonym of missouriensis: Shattuck & Cover, 2016: 15.

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