Monoceratoclinea

Monoceratoclinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Dolichoderini
Genus:	Monoceratoclinea; Wheeler, W.M., 1935
Type species
	Dolichoderus monoceros Specimen Labels;

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

Nomenclature

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

MONOCERATOCLINEA [junior synonym of Dolichoderus]
- Monoceratoclinea Wheeler, W.M. 1935c: 68 [as subgenus of Dolichoderus]. Type-species: Dolichoderus (Hypoclinea) monoceros, by original designation.
- Monoceratoclinea raised to genus: Brown, 1950e: 249.
- Monoceratoclinea junior synonym of Dolichoderus: Shattuck, 1992c: 66.

Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 26, Monoceratoclinea as junior synonym of Dolichoderus)
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 85, Monoceratoclinea as junior synonym of Dolichoderus)
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1950g. Morphological, taxonomic, and other notes on ants. Wasmann J. Biol. 8: 241-250 (page 249, Monoceratoclinea as genus)
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 78, Monoceratoclinea as genus)
Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 17, Monoceratoclinea as genus)
Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21: 1-181 (page 66, Monoceratoclinea as junior synonym of Dolichoderus)
Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Camb.) 42: 68-72 (page 68, Monoceratoclinea as subgenus of Dolichoderus)