Janetia

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Janetia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Pogonomyrmecini
Genus: Janetia
Forel, 1899
Type species
Pogonomyrmex mayri

Pogonomyrmex mayri casent0173358 profile 1.jpg

Pogonomyrmex mayri casent0173358 dorsal 1.jpg

Specimen labels

This taxon is a junior homonym and has been replaced by Pogonomyrmex (the senior synonym of Forelomyrmex).

Nomenclature

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

  • JANETIA [junior homonym, see Forelomyrmex]
    • Janetia Forel, 1899c: 61 (footnote) [as subgenus of Pogonomyrmex]. Type-species: Pogonomyrmex (Janetia) mayri, by monotypy. [Junior homonym of Janetia Kieffer, 1896: 236 (Diptera).]
    • Forelomyrmex Wheeler, W.M. 1913a: 80, replacement name for Janetia Forel.

References

  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 223, Janetia as junior synonym of Pogonomyrmex)
  • Forel, A. 1899e. Formicidae. [part]. Biol. Cent.-Am. Hym. 3: 57-80 (page 61, Janetia; (footnote) as subgenus of Pogonomyrmex; Janetia Forel junior homonym of Janetia Kieffer (Diptera))
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1913a. Corrections and additions to "List of type species of the genera and subgenera of Formicidae". Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 23: 77-83 (page 80, Forelomyrmex as a replacement name for Janetia Forel, 1899)