Aphaenogaster macrospina

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Aphaenogaster macrospina Smith, 1934 junior synonym of current valid taxon Aphaenogaster flemingi Smith, 1928

Aphaenogaster texana subsp. macrospina Smith, 1934b: 386, figs. 1, 2 (w.) U.S.A. (South Carolina). Nearctic.

Primary type information: Primary type material: 4 syntype workers. Primary type locality: U.S.A.: South Carolina, Charleston, Navy Yard (D.E. Read). Primary type depository: USNM.

Combination in Aphaenogaster (Attomyrma): Creighton, 1950a: 145
Subspecies of Aphaenogaster texana: Smith, 1944d: 14; Smith, 1951c: 797.
Status as species: Creighton, 1950a: 145; Smith, 1958c: 117 (error).
Junior synonym of Aphaenogaster flemingi: Smith, 1958a: 113; Smith, 1967a: 352; Smith, 1979: 1361; Bolton, 1995b: 71; Coovert, 2005: 45; Mackay & Mackay, 2017: 241.

Obsolete combinations

Aphaenogaster texana macrospina

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Coovert, G. A. 2005. The ants of Ohio. Bulletin of the Ohio Biological Survey (New Series) 15 (2):1-196. PDF
Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
Mackay, W.; Mackay, E. 2017. The New World gypsy ants of the genera Aphaenogaster and Novomessor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Mauritius: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 605 pp.
Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
Smith, M. R. 1934b. Three new North American ants. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 27:384-387. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1944d. Additional ants recorded from Florida, with descriptions of two new subspecies. Florida Entomologist 27:14-17. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1951c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 778-875 in: Muesebeck, C. F. W.; Krombein, K. V.; Townes, H. K. (eds.) 1951. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2:1-1420. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1958a ("1957"). New synonymy of a North American ant, Aphaenogaster macrospina M. R. Smith (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 52:113. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) 1958. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 1):1-305. PDF
Smith, M. R. 1967a. Family Formicidae. Pp. 343-374 in: Krombein, K. V.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1967. Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalog. Second supplement. United States Department of Agriculture. Agriculture Monograph 2(suppl. 2):1-584. PDF

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