Florencea

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Florencea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Florencea
Donisthorpe, 1937
Type species
Polyrhachis kirkae (junior synonym of Polyrhachis nigriceps)

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Specimen Labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • FLORENCEA [junior synonym of Myrmhopla]
    • Florencea Donisthorpe, 1937a: 624 [as subgenus of Polyrhachis]. Type-species: Polyrhachis (Florencea) kirkae (junior synonym of Polyrhachis nigriceps), by original designation.
    • Florencea junior synonym of Myrmhopla: Hung, 1967b: 402.


References

  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 124, Florencea as junior synonym of Myrmhopla)
  • Donisthorpe, H. 1937a. Some new forms of Formicidae and a correction. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 10(19): 619-628 (page 624, Florencea as subgenus of Myrmhopla)
  • Hung, A. C. F. 1967b. A revision of the ant genus Polyrhachis at the subgeneric level (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 93: 395-422 (page 402, Florencea as junior synonym of Myrmhopla)