Nimbamyrma

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Nimbamyrma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Nimbamyrma
Bernard, 1953
Type species
Nimbamyrma villiersi, now Carebara villiersi

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Specimen Labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • NIMBAMYRMA [junior synonym of Carebara]
    • Nimbamyrma Bernard, 1953b: 240. Type-species: Nimbamyrma villiersi, by monotypy.
    • Nimbamyrma junior synonym of Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 120.
    • Nimbamyrma junior synonym of Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 194.


References

  • Bernard, F. 1953a. Les fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Pp. 121-250 in: Bernard, F. (ed.) Mission scientifique au Tassili des Ajjer (1949). Volume I. Recherches zoologiques et médicales. Paris: P. Lechevalier, 302 pp. (page 240, Nimbamyrma as genus; Nimbamyrma in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetini)
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 216, Nimbamyrma as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)
  • Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 120, Nimbamyrma as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)
  • Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 194, Nimbamyrma as junior synonym of Carebara)