Parectatomma

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Parectatomma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ectatomminae
Tribe: Ectatommini
Genus: Parectatomma
Emery, 1911
Type species
Ectatomma triangulare, now Poneracantha triangularis

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Specimen Label

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

Nomenclature

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

  • PARECTATOMMA [junior synonym of Poneracantha]
    • Parectatomma Emery, 1911d: 44 [as subgenus of Ectatomma]. Type-species: Ectatomma (Gnamptogenys) triangulare Mayr, 1887: 544, by original designation.

Taxonomic history

  • Parectatomma as subgenus of Gnamptogenys: Forel, 1917: 236.
  • Parectatomma as subgenus of Ectatomma: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 643; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 682; Creighton, 1950a: 35; Kusnezov, 1956: 14.
  • Parectatomma as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 212; Kempf, 1972a: 111; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 174.
  • Parectatomma as junior synonym of Poneracantha: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.

References