Pheidologetini

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Pheidologetini
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Crematogastrini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Pheidologetini
Emery, 1914
Type genus
Pheidologeton

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

Nomenclature

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

  • PHEIDOLOGETINI [junior synonym of Crematogastrini]
    • Pheidologetini Emery, 1914a: 38 (diagnosis in key). Type-genus: Pheidologeton Mayr, 1962: 750.

Taxonomic History

  • Pheidologetini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Emery, 1914a: 38; Arnold, 1916: 248; Forel, 1917: 243; Emery, 1922e: 206; Emery, 1924d: 207; Bolton, 1992: 38 [Pheidologetonini]; Bolton, 1994: 106 [Pheidologetonini].
  • Pheidologetini as junior synonym of Solenopsidini: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 659; Bolton, 2003: 59.
  • Pheidologetini as junior synonym of Crematogastrini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

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