Myrmica lobicornis apennina

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Myrmica lobicornis apennina
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Myrmica lobulicornis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Myrmicini
Genus: Myrmica
Species: Myrmica lobicornis apennina
Stärcke, 1927

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

Nomenclature

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

  • apennina. Myrmica lobicornis subsp. apennina Stärcke, 1927: 82, fig. 1 (w.) ITALY. Junior synonym of lobicornis: Seifert, 1988b: 38; of lobulicornis: Seifert, 2005: 6.

References

  • Seifert, B. 1988b. A taxonomic revision of the Myrmica species of Europe, Asia Minor, and Caucasia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Abh. Ber. Naturkundemus. Görlitz 62(3): 1-75 (page 38, Junior synonym of lobicornis)
  • Stärcke, A. 1927. Beginnende Divergenz bei Myrmica lobicornis Nyl. Tijdschr. Entomol. 70: 73-84 (page 82, fig. 1 worker described)