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Diabolus
| Diabolus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Dolichoderini |
| Genus: | Diabolus Karavaiev, 1926 |
| Type species | |
| Dolichoderus bifurcatus (junior synonym of Dolichoderus cuspidatus)
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This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Dolichoderus (the senior synonym of Karawajewella).
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- DIABOLUS [junior homonym, see Karawajewella]
- Diabolus Karavaiev, 1926d: 424 [as subgenus of Dolichoderus]. Type-species: Dolichoderus (Diabolus) bifurcatus (junior synonym of Polyrhachis cuspidatus), by original designation. [Junior homonym of Diabolus Gray, J.E. 1841: 400 (Mammalia).]
- Karawajewella Donisthorpe, 1944b: 59, replacement name for Diabolus Karavaiev.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 86, Diabolus as junior homonym of Diabolus Gray, J.E. 1841:400 (Mammalia) [Homonym replaced by Karawajewella])
- Donisthorpe, H. 1944b. Notes arising out of Mr. W. D. Hincks's review of Mr. Donisthorpe's "A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae". Entomol. Mon. Mag. 80: 59 (page 59, Replacement name is Karawajewella)
- Karavaiev, V. 1926d. Ameisen aus dem Indo-Australischen Gebiet. Treubia 8: 413-445 (page 424, Diabolus as subgenus of Dolichoderus)
- Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21: 1-181 (page 66, Karawajewella is a junior synonym of Dolichoderus)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Camb.) 42: 68-72 (page 68, Diabolus as subgenus of Dolichoderus)