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)

Evolutionary Placement

Heteroponerini Bazboltonia   (1 species) Acanthoponera   (4 species) Heteroponera   (27 species) Ectatommini Ectatomma   (15 species) Rhytidoponera   (104 species) Stictoponera   (42 species) Gnamptogenys   (32 species) Typhlomyrmex   (10 species) Poneracantha   (18 species) Alfaria   (9 species) Holcoponera   (40 species)

Based on Brady et al. (2006) and Camacho et al. (2022).

Identification

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Keys including this Genus

• Key to Ectatomminae Genera

 

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).