Antillaemyrmex

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Antillaemyrmex
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Crematogastrini
Genus: Antillaemyrmex
Mann, 1920
Type species
Macromischa (Antillaemyrmex) terricola, now Temnothorax terricola

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

Nomenclature

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

  • ANTILLAEMYRMEX [junior synonym of Temnothorax]
    • Antillaemyrmex Mann, 1920: 408 [as subgenus of Macromischa]. Type-species: Macromischa (Antillaemyrmex) terricola, by original designation.
    • Antillaemyrmex raised to genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1931b: 4 (in text).
    • Antillaemyrmex junior synonym of Macromischa: Smith, M.R. 1937: 849; Smith, M.R. 1939e: 502.
    • Antillaemyrmex junior synonym of Leptothorax: Snelling, R.R. 1986: 154.
    • Antillaemyrmex junior synonym of Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 253, 271.


References

  • Baroni Urbani, C. 1978b. Materiali per una revisione dei Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Basil. 3: 395-618 (page 398, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Macromischa)
  • Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Macromischa)
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 253, 271, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Temnothorax)
  • Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 403-439 (page 408, Antillaemyrmex as subgenus of Macromischa)
  • Smith, M. R. 1937 [1936]. The ants of Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. P. R. 20: 819-875 (page 849, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Macromischa)
  • Smith, M. R. 1939e. Ants of the genus Macromischa Roger in the United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 32: 502-509. (page 502, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Macromischa)
  • Snelling, R. R. 1986. New synonymy in Caribbean ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 88: 154-156 (page 154, Antillaemyrmex junior synonym of Leptothorax)
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1931b. New and little-known ants of the genera Macromischa, Creosomyrmex and Antillaemyrmex. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72: 1-34 (page 4, 32, Antillaemyrmex as genus)