Formica lavateri liora Fisher, 2025

Fisher, Brian L., 2025, Replacement names for junior homonyms in ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), ZooKeys 1256, pp. 81-113 : 81-113

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1256.162607

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:022D48B6-D029-470F-907D-96134B37CE80

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17370097

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B1DCCED-433B-5AD0-93FE-C6A0499BBB86

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ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Formica lavateri liora Fisher
status

nom. nov.

B 13. Formica lavateri liora Fisher nom. nov.

Note.

Replacement name for Formica lavateri var. major Heer, 1867: 11 , junior primary homonym of Formica major Nylander, 1849: 29 , junior synonym of Formica polyctena Foerster, 1850: 15 .

Type locality.

Croatia (Miocene).

Type material.

Fossil imprints (original description did not specify an institutional repository; Heer’s fossil material is generally housed in the Paläontologisches Institut und Museum der Universität Zürich, but the depository for this specimen is not confirmed).

Type depository.

Unspecified.

Etymology.

Arbitrary combination of letters, treated as a noun in apposition.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Formica