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Geognomicus
| Geognomicus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Geognomicus Menozzi, 1924 |
| Type species | |
| Geognomicus wheeleri (junior synonym of Dicroaspis cryptocera)
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Dicroaspis.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- GEOGNOMICUS [junior synonym of Dicroaspis]
- Geognomicus Menozzi, 1924b: 220. Type-species: Geognomicus wheeleri (junior synonym of Dicroaspis cryptocera), by original designation.
- [Geognomicus as genus: Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 257 (anachronism); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 81 (anachronism).]
- Geognomicus junior synonym of Dicroaspis: Bolton, 1981a: 56; Bolton, 1994: 106.
References
- Bolton, B. 1981a. A revision of the ant genera Meranoplus F. Smith, Dicroaspis Emery and Calyptomyrmex Emery (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 42: 43-81 (page 56, Geognomicus as junior synonym of Dicroaspis)
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 106, Geognomicus as junior synonym of Dicroaspis)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 203, Geognomicus as junior synonym of Dicroaspis)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 81, Geognomicus as genus (anachronism))
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 647, Geognomicus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Menozzi, C. 1924b. Alcune nuove formiche africane. [part]. Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. "Giacomo Doria" 51: 220-224 (page 220, Geognomicus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 111: 255-264 (page 257, Geognomicus as genus (anachronism))
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935a. Two new genera of myrmicine ants from Papua and the Philippines. Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club 15: 1-9 (page 7, Geognomicus in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)