Apterostigma immobile

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Apterostigma immobile
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Apterostigma auriculatum)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Apterostigma
Species: Apterostigma immobile
Weber, 1940

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

Nomenclature

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

  • immobile. Apterostigma immobile Weber, 1940a: 418 (w.m.) PANAMA. Junior synonym of auriculatum: Weber, 1958c: 243.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 74, catalogue)
  • Weber, N. A. 1940b. The biology of the fungus-growing ants. Part VI. Key to Cyphomyrmex, new Attini and a new guest ant. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 11: 406-427 (page 418, worker, male described)
  • Weber, N. A. 1958d. Synonymies and types of Apterostigma (Hym: Formicidae). Entomol. News 69: 243-251 (page 243, junior synonym of auriculatum)