Ireneopone
Ireneopone | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
Genus: | Ireneopone Donisthorpe, 1946 |
Type species | |
Ireneopone gibber, now Nesomyrmex gibber
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Nesomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- IRENEOPONE [junior synonym of Nesomyrmex]
- Ireneopone Donisthorpe, 1946d: 242. Type-species: Ireneopone gibber, by original designation.
- Ireneopone junior synonym of Nesomyrmex: Bolton, 2003: 250, 272.
References
- Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 34: 281-379 (page 292, Ireneopone incertae sedis in Myrmicinae)
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Ireneopone in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini)
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 2 29: 1037-1056 (page 1050, Ireneopone in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 217, Ireneopone in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 250, 272, Ireneopone as junior synonym of Nesomyrmex)
- 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, Ireneopone incertae sedis in Myrmicinae)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1946h. Ireneopone gibber (Hym., Formicidae), a new genus and species of myrmicine ant from Mauritius. Entomol. Mon. Mag. 82: 242-243 (page 242, 243, Ireneopone in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 111: 255-264 (page 257, Ireneopone in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini (anachronism))