Bazboltonia

Bazboltonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ectatomminae
Tribe:	Heteroponerini
Genus:	Bazboltonia Camacho & Feitosa, 2022
Type species
Heteroponera microps, now Bazboltonia microps
Diversity
1 species (Species Checklist, Species by Country)

At a Glance

• Monotypic

Identification

See images of species within this genus

Keys including this Genus

• Key to Ectatomminae Genera

 

Distribution

Species by Region

Number of species within biogeographic regions, along with the total number of species for each region.

	Afrotropical Region	Australasian Region	Indo-Australian Region	Malagasy Region	Nearctic Region	Neotropical Region	Oriental Region	Palaearctic Region
Species	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Total Species	2839	1735	3036	932	834	4378	1708	2836

Phylogeny

Ectatomminae

Heteroponerini Bazboltonia  (1 species, 0 fossil species) Acanthoponera  (4 species, 0 fossil species) Heteroponera  (27 species, 0 fossil species) Ectatommini Ectatomma  (15 species, 1 fossil species) Rhytidoponera  (104 species, 3 fossil species) Stictoponera  (43 species, 0 fossil species) Gnamptogenys  (32 species, 5 fossil species) Typhlomyrmex  (11 species, 0 fossil species) Poneracantha  (18 species, 1 fossil species) Alfaria  (9 species, 0 fossil species) Holcoponera  (40 species, 0 fossil species)

See Phylogeny of Ectatomminae for details.

Nomenclature

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

• BAZBOLTONIA [Ectatomminae: Heteroponerini]
  • Bazboltonia Camacho & Feitosa, 2022: 449.

Taxonomic history

• [Replacement name for Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa, in Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 14; junior homonym of †Boltonia Pruvost, 1919: (page?) (Orthoptera.]

References

• Camacho, G.P., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. Bazboltonia nom. nov., a replacement name for the preoccupied Neotropical ant genus Boltonia Camacho & Feitosa 2022 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 5116(3): 449-450 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5116.3.9).
• Camacho, G.P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R., Longino, J.T., Schultz, T.R., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among Ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(1): 5; 1–20 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab026).