Crematogaster opaca texana

AntWiki: The Ants --- Online
Crematogaster opaca texana
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Crematogaster punctulata)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Crematogaster
Species: Crematogaster opaca texana
Santschi, 1929

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

Nomenclature

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

  • texana. Crematogaster (Acrocoelia) opaca var. texana Santschi, 1929f: 91 (w.) U.S.A. (Texas).
    • Type-material: syntype workers (number not stated).
    • Type-locality: U.S.A: Texas, Farming County, Bonham, 25.vii.1922 (E. & G. Wheeler).
    • Type-depository: NHMB.
    • Subspecies of opaca: Enzmann, J. 1946c: 94.
    • Unidentifiable taxon, incertae sedis in Pheidole: Smith, M.R. 1951a: 810.
    • Junior synonym of lineolata: Morgan & Mackay, 2017: 222.
    • Junior synonym of punctulata: Creighton, 1950a: 214; Buren, in Smith, M.R. 1958c: 127; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1380; Bolton, 1995b: 164; Ward & Blaimer, 2022: 925.

References