Simopone wilburi

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Formicoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Hymenopterida Ordo: Hymenoptera Subordo: Apocrita Superfamilia: Formicoidea

Familia: Formicidae
Subfamilia: Cerapachyinae
Tribus: Cerapachyini
Genus: Simopone
Species: Simopone wilburi

Name

Simopone wilburi Weber, 1949: 7, figs 6, 7 [Previously junior synonym of schoutedeni: Brown, 1975: 36.]

Holotype: AMNH, 24.ii.1948, #2119 (N.A. Weber), Worker.

Type locality: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO (“B. Congo” on data label); Ituri F., Beni-Irumu, 17 mi. north of Beni.

References

• Weber, N.A. 1949: New African ants of the genera Cerapachys, Phyracaces and Simopone. American Museum Novitates, 1396, 1–9.
• Bolton, B.; Fisher, B.L. 2012: Taxonomy of the cerapachyine ant genera Simopone Forel, Vicinopone gen. n. and Tanipone gen. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa, 3283: 1–101. [1]