Chronoxenus myops

Chronoxenus myops
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Genus:	Chronoxenus
Species:	C. myops
Binomial name
Chronoxenus myops (Forel, 1895) Specimen Labels
Synonyms
Liometopum minimum Zhou, 2001

Distribution

Distribution based on Regional Taxon Lists

Oriental Region: India (type locality), Pakistan.
Palaearctic Region: China.

Distribution based on AntMaps

Distribution based on AntWeb specimens

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Nomenclature

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

• myops. Bothriomyrmex myops Forel, 1895e: 471 (w.q.) INDIA. Combination in Bothriomyrmex (Chronoxenus): Donisthorpe, 1944e: 102; in Chronoxenus: Dubovikov, 2005: 93. Senior synonym of minimum: Del Toro, et al. 2009: 340. See also: Bingham, 1903: 306.
• minimum. Liometopum minimum Zhou, 2001a: 557 (w.q.m.) CHINA. Combination in Chronoxenus Del Toro, et al. 2009: 340. Junior synonym of myops: Del Toro, et al. 2009: 340.

References

• Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp. (page 306, see also)
• Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 81, catalogue)
• Donisthorpe, H. 1944e. A new species of Bothriomyrmex Emery (Hym. Formicidae), and some notes on the genus. Proc. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. Ser. B 13: 100-103 (page 102, combination in Bothriomyrmex (Chronoxenus))
• Dubovikoff, D.A. 2005. The system of taxon Bothriomyrmex Emery, 1869 sensu lato (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and relatives genera. Kavkazskii Entomologicheskii Byulleten 1(1): 89-94 (page 93, transferred to Chronoxenus; combination in Chronoxenus)
• Forel, A. 1895f. Les Formicides de l'Empire des Indes et de Ceylan. Part V. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 9: 453-472 (page 471, worker, queen described)
• Liu, C., Fischer, G., Hita Garcia, F., Yamane, S., Liu, Q., Peng, Y.Q., Economo, E.P., Guénard, B., Pierce, N.E. 2020. Ants of the Hengduan Mountains: a new altitudinal survey and updated checklist for Yunnan Province highlight an understudied insect biodiversity hotspot. ZooKeys 978, 1–171 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.978.55767).

References based on Global Ant Biodiversity Informatics

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