Dacetonini

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Dacetonini
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Attini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Dacetonini
Forel, 1892
Type genus
Daceton

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Attini.

Nomenclature

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

  • DACETINI [junior synonym of Attini]
    • Dacetonini Forel, 1892d: 344. Type-genus: Daceton Perty, 1833: 136.

Taxonomic History

  • Dacetini as subfamily of Cryptoceridae: Ashmead, 1905b: 383 [Dacetonini].
  • Dacetini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1892d: 344 [Dacetonini genus group]; Forel, 1893a: 164 [Dacetonii]; Forel, 1895b: 133 [Dacetonii]; Emery, 1895j: 770 [Dacetii]; Forel, 1899c: 41 [Dacetii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 141 [Dacetonii]; Emery, 1914a: 39 [Dacetini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1915e: 491 [Dacetoniini (in text)]; Arnold, 1917: 372; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 655, 666 [Dacetonini]; Emery, 1924d: 312; Brown, 1948e: 125; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1994: 105 [Dacetonini]; Bolton, 1995b: 10; Bolton, 1999: 1639 [Dacetonini]; Bolton, 2000: 12; Bolton, 2003: 54, 185; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 81.
  • Dacetini as senior synonym of Dacetiti, Epopostrumiti, Orectognathiti and Strumigeniti: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 9.
  • Dacetini as junior synonym of Attini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

Taxonomic References

Mayr, 1887: 567 (Neotropical genera key); Emery, 1895j: 770 (diagnosis); Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 141 (diagnosis); Emery, 1912b: 101 (phylogeny); Emery, 1914a: 39, 42 (diagnosis (in key), synoptic classification); Forel, 1917: 246 (synoptic classification); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 666, 917, 1034 (genera key, Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1924d: 312 (diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Brown, 1948e: 125 (genera revision, key); Brown, 1949d: 1 (Japan, China, Taiwan fauna); Brown, 1953g: 2 (diagnosis, subtribal grouping); Brown & Wilson, 1959b: 278 (evolution, phylogeny); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 60 (larvae, review and synthesis); Kugler, C. 1978a: 436 (sting structure); Bolton, 1983: 267 (Afrotropical fauna), Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80 (synoptic classification); Terayama & Kubota, 1989: 778 (Taiwan fauna); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 391 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification); Arakelian & Dlussky, 1991: 149 (former U.S.S.R. fauna); Dlussky, 1993: 53 (Fiji Is, Tonga, Samoa fauna); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 9 (review of tribe, classification, phylogeny); Bolton, 1995a: 1040 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 10 (catalogue); Deyrup, 1997: 2 (Bahamas fauna); Bolton, 1998: 71 (comparative morphology, monophyly, relationships); Bolton, 1999: 1639 (diagnosis, genera revision, morphology, phylogeny, classification, key); Bolton, 2000: 13 (diagnosis, genera key); Lyu, et al. 2001: 232 (Korea fauna); Fernández, 2003d: 316 (Neotropical genera); Bolton, 2003: 54, 185 (diagnosis, synopsis); Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 81, 131 (classification, genera key); Sosa-Calvo, et al. 2010: 39 (Guyana species key).

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