Leptomyrmex gracillimus

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Leptomyrmex gracillimus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Leptomyrmex fragilis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Dolichoderinae
Tribe: Leptomyrmecini
Genus: Leptomyrmex
Species: Leptomyrmex gracillimus
Wheeler, W.M., 1934

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

Nomenclature

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

  • gracillimus. Leptomyrmex gracillimus Wheeler, W.M. 1934c: 115, fig. 16 (w.) NEW GUINEA. Junior synonym of fragilis: Baroni Urbani & Wilson, 1987: 2.

References

  • Baroni Urbani, C.; Wilson, E. O. 1987. The fossil members of the ant tribe Leptomyrmecini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 94: 1-8 (page 2, Junior synonym of gragilis)
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1934c. A second revision of the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77: 69-118 (page 115, fig. 16 worker described)