Ireneopone

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Ireneopone
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

Nesomyrmex gibber casent0102303 profile 1.jpg

Nesomyrmex gibber casent0102303 dorsal 1.jpg

Specimen labels

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))