Solenopsis fugax pontica
Solenopsis fugax pontica | |
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Scientific classification (junior synonym of Solenopsis fugax) | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Solenopsidini |
Genus: | Solenopsis |
Species: | Solenopsis fugax pontica Santschi, 1934 |
This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Solenopsis fugax.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- pontica. Solenopsis (Diplorhoptrum) fugax var. pontica Santschi, 1934e: 584, fig. 37 (w.q.m.) UKRAINE (Crimea), ARMENIA, MOLDOVA, ROMANIA.
- Type-material: syntype workers, syntype queens, syntype males (numbers not stated).
- Type-localities: Ukraine: Crimea (Karawaiew), Armenia: Erevan (Mejunoff), Romania: Dobruja, Macin (Montandon), Moldova: Val de Berlad (Montandon).
- Type-depository: NHMB.
- Subspecies of fugax: Ettershank, 1966: 143.
- Junior synonym of fugax: Dlussky & Zabelin, 1985: 221; Arakelian, 1994: 50; Dlussky & Radchenko, 1994: 109; Bolton, 1995b: 390; Radchenko, 2016: 180; Csősz et al., 2023: 202.
References
- Csősz, S., Seifert, B., László, M., Yusupov, Z. M., Herczeg, G. 2023. Broadly sympatric occurrence of two thief ant species Solenopsis fugax (Latreille, 1798) and S. juliae (Arakelian, 1991) in the East European Pontic-Caspian region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) is disclosed. ZooKeys 1187, 189–222 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1187.105866).