Ocymyrmex carpenteri

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Ocymyrmex carpenteri
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Ocymyrmex picardi)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Ocymyrmex
Species: Ocymyrmex carpenteri
Donisthorpe, 1933

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

Nomenclature

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

  • carpenteri. Ocymyrmex carpenteri Donisthorpe, 1933b: 195 (q., not w.) BOTSWANA. Junior synonym of picardi: Bolton, 1981b: 275.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 43: 245-307 (page 275, Junior synonym of picardi)