Temnothorax sentosus is a species of ant in the genus Temnothorax,[2] that is native to Kazakhstan.[1]

Temnothorax sentosus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Temnothorax
Species:
T. sentosus
Binomial name
Temnothorax sentosus
Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2015
Synonyms

Chalepoxenus spinosus (Arnol'di, 1968)
Leonomyrma spinosa Arnol'di, 1968

First described as Leonomyrma spinosa by Arnol'di (1968), and then moved to Chalepoxenus (as Chalepoxenus spinosus), the species became a secondary junior homonym and given the replacement name Temnothorax sentosus when Chalepoxenus was synonymized with Temnothorax by Ward et al. (2015).[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Social Insects Specialist Group (1996). "Chalepoxenus spinosus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T4405A10853637. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T4405A10853637.en. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. ^ Bolton, B. (2016). "Temnothorax sentosus". AntCat. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  3. ^ Ward, Philip S.; Brady, Sean G.; Fisher, Brian L.; Schultz, Ted R. (July 2014). "The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)". Systematic Entomology. 40 (1): 61–81. Bibcode:2015SysEn..40...61W. doi:10.1111/syen.12090. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 83986771.
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