Spelaeomyrmex

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Spelaeomyrmex
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Spelaeomyrmex
Wheeler, W.M., 1922
Type species
Spelaeomyrmex urichi, now Carebara urichi

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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.

  • SPELAEOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Carebara]
    • Spelaeomyrmex Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 9. Type-species: Spelaeomyrmex urichi, by original designation.
    • Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Erebomyrma: Wilson, 1962: 63.
    • Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Oligomyrmex: Bolton, 1994: 106.
    • Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 194.


References

  • Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 106, Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 215, Spelaeomyrmex as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)
  • Donisthorpe, H. 1943h. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [concl.]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 721-737 (page 727, Spelaeomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini)
  • Donisthorpe, H. 1944b. Notes arising out of Mr. W. D. Hincks's review of Mr. Donisthorpe's "A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae". Entomol. Mon. Mag. 80: 59 (page 59, Spelaeomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidologitonini)
  • Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 194, Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Carebara)
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1922e. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45: 1-16 (page 9, 11, Spelaeomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidologitonini)
  • Wilson, E. O. 1962a. The Trinidad cave ant Erebomyrma (=Spelaeomyrmex) urichi (Wheeler), with a comment on cavernicolous ants in general. Psyche (Camb.) 69: 62-72 (page 63, Spelaeomyrmex as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)