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Phaulomyrma
| Phaulomyrma | |
|---|---|
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| Leptanilla javana | |
| Scientific classification (junior synonym of Leptanilla) | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Leptanillinae |
| Tribe: | Leptanillini |
| Genus: | Phaulomyrma Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, E.W., 1930 |
| Type species | |
| Phaulomyrma javana, now Leptanilla javana | |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Leptanilla.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- PHAULOMYRMA [junior synonym of Leptanilla]
- Phaulomyrma Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, E.W. 1930: 193. Type-species: Phaulomyrma javana Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, E.W. 1930: 193, by original designation.
Taxonomic history
- Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini: Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, E.W. 1930: 201; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 683; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Bolton, 1990b: 277; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Bolton, 1994: 70; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 40; 152.
- Phaulomyrma as genus: all authors.
- Phaulomyrma catalogues: Bolton, 1995b: 316.
- Phaulomyrma references: Petersen, 1968: 593 (review of genus); Baroni Urbani, 1977c: 480 (review of genus); Ogata, et al. 1995: 32 (review of genus).
- Phaulomyrma as junior synonym of Leptanilla: Griebenow, 2021: 630; Griebenow, 2024: 128.
Etymology
Phaulos, trifling, paltry + myrmex, ant.
References
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1977c. Materiali per una revisione della sottofamiglia Leptanillinae Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Basil. 2: 427-488 (page 480, Review of genus)
- Bolton, B. 1990d. The higher classification of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Syst. Entomol. 15: 267-282 (page 277, Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 70, Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 316, Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 152, Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Cantone S. 2018. Winged Ants, The queen. Dichotomous key to genera of winged female ants in the World. The Wings of Ants: morphological and systematic relationships (self-published).
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 79, Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 683, Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Griebenow, Z.H. 2021. Synonymisation of the male-based ant genus Phaulomyrma (Hymenoptera:Formicidae) with Leptanilla based upon Bayesian total-evidence phylogenetic inference. Invertebrate Systematics 35, 603–636 (doi:10.1071/is20059).
- Griebenow, Z. 2024. Systematic revision of the ant subfamily Leptanillinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 1189, 83–184 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.1189.107506).
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 12, Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)
- Petersen, B. 1968. Some novelties in presumed males of Leptanillinae (Hym., Formicidae). Entomol. Medd. 36: 577-598 (page 593, Review of genus)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, E. W. 1930. Two new ants from Java. Psyche (Camb.) 37: 193-201 (page 193, Phaulomyrma as genus; page 201, Phaulomyrma in Leptanillinae, Leptanillini)