Mycetophylax glaber

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Mycetophylax glaber
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Kalathomyrmex emeryi)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Kalathomyrmex
Species: Mycetophylax glaber
Weber, 1948

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

Nomenclature

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

  • glaber. Mycetophylax glaber Weber, 1948b: 85 (w.) BOLIVIA. Junior synonym of emeryi: Klingenberg & Brandão, 2009: 23.

References

  • Weber, N. A. 1948b. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan islands: No. 14. Ants from the Leeward Group and some other Caribbean localities. Natuurwet. Studiekring Suriname Ned. Antillen 5: 78-86 (page 85, worker described)