Xerolitor

Xerolitor
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Attini
Genus:	Xerolitor Sosa-Calvo, Schultz, Jesovnik, Dahan & Rabeling, 2018
Type species
Mycetosoritis explicatus, now Xerolitor explicatus
Diversity
1 species (Species Checklist, Species by Country) Specimen labels

Evolutionary Relationships

Neoattina Cyatta (1 species), Kalathomyrmex (1 species) Mycetarotes   (4 species) Mycetosoritis   (2 species) Cyphomyrmex   (23 species) Mycetophylax   (21 species) Mycetagroicus   (4 species) Mycetomoellerius   (30 species) Sericomyrmex   (11 species) Xerolitor   (1 species) Paratrachymyrmex   (9 species) Trachymyrmex   (9 species) Acromyrmex   (63 species) Atta   (19 species)

Based on Ward et al. (2014), Blaimer et al. (2018) and Li et al. (2018).

A genus of fungus growing ants.

At a Glance

• Fungus Grower

 

 

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's New General Catalogue, a catalogue of the world's ants.

• XEROLITOR [Myrmicinae: Attini]
  • Xerolitor Sosa-Calvo, Schultz, Jesovnik, Dahan & Rabeling, 2018: 555. Type-species: Mycetosoritis explicatus, by monotypy.

References

• Sosa-Calvo, J., Schultz, T.R., Jesovnik, A., Dahan, R.A., Rabeling, C. 2018. Evolution, systematics, and natural history of a new genus of cryptobiotic fungus-growing ants. Systematic Entomology, 43, 549–567 (doi:10.1111/syen.12289).