Myrmica puerilis

Myrmica puerilis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Myrmica specioides)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Myrmicini
Genus:	Myrmica
Species:	Myrmica puerilis Stärcke, 1942

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

Nomenclature

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

• puerilis. Myrmica puerilis Stärcke, 1942c: xxvii, figs. 1-3, 5 (w.q.m.) NETHERLANDS. Material of the nomina nuda atlantica, neglecta referred here: Stärcke, 1942c: xxvii. Junior synonym of specioides: Collingwood & Yarrow, 1969: 57; Seifert, 1988b: 16.

References

• Collingwood, C. A.; Yarrow, I. H. H. 1969. A survey of Iberian Formicidae (Hymenoptera). EOS. Rev. Esp. Entomol. 44: 53-101 (page 57, Junior synonym of specioides)
• Seifert, B. 1988b. A taxonomic revision of the Myrmica species of Europe, Asia Minor, and Caucasia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Abh. Ber. Naturkundemus. Görlitz 62(3): 1-75 (page 16, Junior synonym of specioides)
• Seifert, B. 2011. A taxonomic revision of the Eurasian Myrmica salina species complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Soil Organisms 83: 169-186.
• Stärcke, A. 1942d. Drie nog onbeschreven Europeesche miervormen. Tijdschr. Entomol. 85:xxiv-xxix. (page xxvii, figs. 1-3, 5 worker, queen, male described)
• Stärcke, A. 1942d. Drie nog onbeschreven Europeesche miervormen. Tijdschr. Entomol. 85:xxiv-xxix. (page xxvii, Material of the nomina nuda atlantica and neglecta referred here.)