Cryptocerus cordatus multispinus

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Cryptocerus cordatus multispinus
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Cephalotes basalis)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Cephalotes
Species: Cryptocerus cordatus multispinus
Emery, 1890

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

Nomenclature

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

  • multispinus. Cryptocerus cordatus r. multispinus Emery, 1890b: 75, pl. 9, fig. 5 (w.) COSTA RICA. [Also described as new by Emery, 1894k: 59.] Emery, 1894c: 202 (s.); Forel, 1899c: 49 (q.); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1954b: 155 (l.). Combination in Cryptocerus (Paracryptocerus): Emery, 1915i: 192; in Paracryptocerus: Kempf, 1951: 204; in Zacryptocerus: Brandão, 1991: 387. Raised to species: Dalla Torre, 1893: 143; Emery, 1894c: 201. Junior synonym of basalis: De Andrade & Baroni Urbani, 1999: 269.

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