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Myrmetaerus
| Myrmetaerus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Myrmetaerus Soudek, 1925 |
| Type species | |
| Myrmetaerus microcellatus (junior synonym of Temnothorax gordiagini)
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Temnothorax.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- MYRMETAERUS [junior synonym of Myrmoxenus]
- Myrmetaerus Soudek, 1925a: 33. Type-species: Myrmetaerus microcellatus (junior synonym of Myrmoxenus gordiagini), by monotypy.
- [Myrmetaerus also described as new by Soudek, 1925b: 14.]
- Myrmetaerus junior synonym of Camponotus: Snelling, R.R. 1981: 404 (error).
- Myrmoxenus junior synonym of Epimyrma: Bolton, 1994: 105.
- Myrmetaerus junior synonym of Myrmoxenus: Buschinger, Winter & Faber, 1984: 336; Bolton, 2003: 248.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Myrmoxenus junior synonym of Epimyrma)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 249, Myrmetaerus as junior synonym of Myrmoxenus; in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J., Ayensu, E. S., Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, viii + 350 pp. (page 182, Myrmetaerus as junior synonym of Leptothorax (provisional))
- Buschinger, A.; Winter, U.; Faber, W. 1984 [1983]. The biology of Myrmoxenus gordiagini Ruzsky, a slave-making ant (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 90: 335-342 (page 336, Myrmetaerus as junior synonym of Myrmoxenus)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 667, Myrmetaerus in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini)
- Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp. (page 404, Myrmetaerus as junior synonym of Camponotus (error))
- Soudek, S. 1925a. Four new European ants. Entomol. Rec. J. Var. 37: 33-37 (page 33, Myrmetaerus as genus)
- Soudek, S. 1925b. Dalmatstí mravenci (Formicidae). Cas. Cesk. Spol. Entomol. 22: 12-17 (page 14, Myrmetaerus also described as new)