Santschia

Santschia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Solenopsidini
Genus:	Santschia Forel, 1905
Type species
Santschia intrudens, now Monomorium santschii

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

Nomenclature

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

• SANTSCHIA [junior synonym of Monomorium]
  • Santschia Forel, 1906a: 65 (in text). Type-species: Santschia intrudens Forel, 1906a: 65 (automatic absolute junior synonym of Wheeleria santschii Forel, 1905b: 171, as both names are based on the same type-material).
  • Taxonomic history
  • [First replacement name for Wheeleria Forel, 1905b: 171; junior homonym of Wheeleria Tutt, 1905: 37 (Lepidoptera).]
  • [Note: Forel, 1906a: 64, writes, “je me réserve, au cas où le nom de Wheeleria aurait été déjà employé de donner celui de Santschia intrudens à la Fourmi parasite découverte par M. Santschi.” A unique case because while the genus-group name Wheeleria Forel, 1905b: 171 is a junior homonym, its species-group name santschii is not. Therefore Santschia becomes the first replacement name for Wheeleria, while intrudens becomes an absolute junior synonym of santschii.]
  • Santschia as junior synonym of Monomorium: not previously recorded.