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Quadristruma
| Quadristruma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Quadristruma Brown, 1949 |
| Type species | |
| Epitritus emmae, now Strumigenys emmae
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Strumigenys.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- QUADRISTRUMA [junior synonym of Strumigenys]
- Quadristruma Brown, 1949b: 47. Type-species: Epitritus emmae, by original designation.
- Quadristruma junior synonym of Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 12; Bolton, 1999: 1673; Bolton, 2000: 492.
References
- Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 1994. First description of fossil Dacetini ants with a critical analysis of the current classification of the tribe (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VI: Dacetini). Stuttg. Beitr. Naturkd. Ser. B ( (page 12, Quadristruma as junior synonym of Strumigenys)
- Bolton, B. 1983. The Afrotropical dacetine ants (Formicidae). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 46: 267-416 (page 400, Review of genus)
- Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 3 33: 1639-1689 (page 1673, Quadristruma as junior synonym of Strumigenys)
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 65: 1-1028 (page 492, Quadristruma as junior synonym of Strumigenys)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 192, Quadristruma as junior synonym of Strumigenys)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949f. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini. I. Fauna of Japan, China and Taiwan. Mushi 20: 1-25 (page 47, Quadristruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)