Plagiolepis barbara madeirensis

Plagiolepis barbara madeirensis
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Plagiolepis schmitzii)
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Formicinae
Tribe:	Plagiolepidini
Genus:	Plagiolepis
Species:	Plagiolepis barbara madeirensis Emery, 1921

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

Nomenclature

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

• madeirensis. Plagiolepis barbara var. madeirensis Emery, 1921d: 315, fig. I (4) (w.) PORTUGAL (Madeira I.).
  • Subspecies of barbara: Emery, 1925b: 20; Santschi, 1932g: 4.
  • Subspecies of schmitzii: Bolton, 1995b: 335.
  • Junior synonym of schmitzii: Wetterer, Espadaler, et al. 2007: 20; Sharaf, Aldawood & Taylor, 2011: 208; Seifert, 2020: 187.

References

• Seifert, B. 2020. Revision of the Plagiolepis schmitzii group with description of Pl. invadens sp. nov. – a new invasive supercolonial species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift 67(2): 183–196 (doi:10.3897/dez.67.53199).