Solenopsidini

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Identification

List of Genera

Extant Genera

Fossil Genera

No fossil genera within tribe.

Nomenclature

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

  • SOLENOPSIDINI [tribe of Myrmicinae]
    • Solenopsisii Forel, 1893a: 164. Type-genus: Solenopsis Westwood, 1840b: 86.

Taxonomic History

  • Solenopsidini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1893a: 164 [Solenopsisii]; Emery, 1895j: 769 [Solenopsidii]; Forel, 1899c: 79 [Solenopsidii]; Ashmead, 1905b: 383 [Solenopsidini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 140 [Solenopsidii]; Emery, 1914a: 37; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 46 [Solenopsidiini]; Arnold, 1916: 203; Forel, 1917: 242; Emery, 1922e: 158; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 670; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 59, 207.
  • Solenopsidini as senior synonym of Megalomyrmecini and Monomoriini Emery: Bolton, 1994: 106.
  • Solenopsidini as senior synonym of Monomoriini Wheeler: Bolton, 1995b: 15.
  • Solenopsidini as senior synonym of †Hypopomyrmeciti and Pheidologetini: Bolton, 2003: 59, 207.
  • Solenopsidini as senior synonym of Adelomyrmecini, Megalomyrmecini, Monomoriini, Myrmicariini, Stegomyrmecini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

Taxonomic References

Emery, 1895j: 769 (diagnosis); Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 140 (diagnosis); Emery, 1914a: 37, 38, 41 (diagnoses (in key), synoptic classification); Forel, 1917: 242 (synoptic classification); Emery, 1922e: 158, 206 (Solenopsidini diagnosis, genera key, catalogue; Pheidologetini diagnosis); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 670 (genera key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 862, 1026 (Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1924d: 207 (Pheidologetini genera key, catalogue); Kusnezov, 1957a: 267 (Neotropical genera key); Ettershank, 1966: 73 (review of Solenopsidini, genera diagnoses); Ettershank, 1966: 115 (Pheidologeton group review); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 55 (larvae, review and synthesis); Kugler, C. 1978a: 455 (sting structure); Kugler, C. 1986: 221 (Pheidologeton group sting structure); Bolton, 1987: 263 (diagnosis, review of tribe, genera key); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 390 (Neotropical, synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1041 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 14, 15 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 60, 207 (diagnosis, synopsis); Fernández, 2003d: 322 (Neotropical genera); Ward, et al. 2015: 67 (reclassification).

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