Leptogenysii

AntWiki: The Ants --- Online
Leptogenysii
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Ponerini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Leptogenysii
Forel, 1893
Type genus
Leptogenys

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Ponerini.

Nomenclature

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

  • LEPTOGENYINI [junior synonym of Ponerini]
    • Leptogenysii Forel, 1893a: 162. Type-genus: Leptogenys Roger, 1861a: 41.

Taxonomic History

  • Leptogenyini as tribe of Ponerinae: Forel, 1893a: 162 [Leptogenysii]; Emery, 1895j: 761 [Leptogenyi]; Forel, 1899c: 17 [Leptogenyi]; Emery, 1901a: 36 [Leptogenyi]; Ashmead, 1905b: 382 [Leptogenyini]; Emery, 1911d: 97 [Leptogenyini]; Arnold, 1915: 88 [Leptogenyini]; Forel, 1917: 238 [Leptogenyini]; Gallardo, 1918b: 6 [Leptogenyini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 636 [Leptogenyini]; Arnold, 1926: 209 [Leptogenyini]; Bernard, 1953b: 210 [Leptogenyini]; Kusnezov, 1964: 53 [Leptogenyini]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78 [Leptogenyini].
  • Leptogenyini as junior synonym of Ponerini: Brown, 1963: 3; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 12; Bolton, 2003: 43, 158; Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 52.

References