Barbourella

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Barbourella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Barbourella
Wheeler, W.M., 1930
Type species
Emeryella (Barbourella) banksi, now Poneracantha banksi

Gnamptogenys banksi P inbiocri001281007.jpg

Gnamptogenys banksi D inbiocri001281007.jpg

Specimen Label

This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Poneracantha.

Nomenclature

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

  • BARBOURELLA [junior synonym of Poneracantha]
    • Barbourella Wheeler, W.M. 1930f: 10 [as subgenus of Emeryella]. Type-species: Emeryella (Barbourella) banksi Wheeler, W.M. 1930f: 10, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

  • Barbourella as subgenus of Emeryella: Donisthorpe, 1943f: 627.
  • Barbourella as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 212; Kempf, 1972a: 111; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Bolton, 2003: 175.
  • Barbourella as junior synonym of Poneracantha: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.

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