Apterostigma gibbum

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Apterostigma gibbum
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Apterostigma ierense)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Apterostigma
Species: Apterostigma gibbum
Weber, 1938

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

Nomenclature

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

  • gibbum. Apterostigma gibbum Weber, 1938b: 162, fig. 18 (w.q.m.) BOLIVIA. Junior synonym of ierense: Lattke, 1997: 156.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 74, catalogue)
  • Lattke, J. E. 1997. Revisión del género Apterostigma Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Arq. Zool. (São Paulo) 34: 121-221 (page 156, Junior synonym of ierense)
  • Weber, N. A. 1938b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part IV. Additional new forms. Part V. The Attini of Bolivia. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 9: 154-206 (page 162, fig. 18 worker, queen, male described)