Wessonistruma

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Wessonistruma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Wessonistruma
Brown, 1948
Type species
Strumigenys pergandei, now Strumigenys pergandei

Pyramica pergandei casent0104882 profile 1.jpg

Pyramica pergandei casent0104882 dorsal 1.jpg

Specimen labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • WESSONISTRUMA [junior synonym of Strumigenys]
    • Wessonistruma Brown, 1948e: 106 [as subgenus of Smithistruma]. Type-species: Strumigenys pergandei, by original designation.
    • Wessonistruma junior synonym of Smithistruma: Brown, 1973a: 35.
    • Wessonistruma junior synonym of Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1668; Bolton, 2000: 91.

References

  • Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 3 33: 1639-1689 (page 1668, Wessonistruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
  • Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 65: 1-1028 (page 91, Wessonistruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 189, Wessonistruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
  • Brown, W. L., Jr. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 74: 101-129 (page 106, Wessonistruma as subgenus of Smithistruma; Wessonistruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)
  • Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973a. A new species of Miccostruma (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from West Africa, with notes on the genus. J. Kans. Entomol. Soc. 46: 32-35 (page 35, Wessonistruma as junior synonym of Smithistruma)