Wheelerimyrmex

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Wheelerimyrmex
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Wheelerimyrmex
Mann, 1922
Type species
Megalomyrmex silvestrii

Megalomyrmex silvestrii casent0173976 dorsal 1.jpg

Specimen labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • WHEELERIMYRMEX [junior synonym of Megalomyrmex]
    • Wheelerimyrmex Mann, 1922: 29 [as subgenus of Megalomyrmex]. Type-species: Megalomyrmex silvestrii, by original designation.
    • Wheelerimyrmex junior synonym of Megalomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 101; Brandão, 1990: 415.


References

  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 211, Wheelerimyrmex as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
  • Brandão, C. R. F. 1990b. Systematic revision of the Neotropical ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), with the description of thirteen new species. Arq. Zool. (São Paulo) 31: 411-481 (page 415, Wheelerimyrmex as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
  • Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 101, Wheelerimyrmex as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
  • Mann, W. M. 1922. Ants from Honduras and Guatemala. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 61: 1-54 (page 29, Wheelerimyrmex as subgenus of Megalomyrmex)