Endiodioctes

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Endiodioctes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Lasiini
Genus: Endiodioctes
Snelling, R.R., 1976
Type species
Myrmecocystus melliger

Myrmecocystus melliger casent0103518 profile 1.jpg

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Specimen labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • ENDIODIOCTES [junior synonym of Myrmecocystus]
    • Endiodioctes Snelling, R.R. 1976: 25 [as subgenus of Myrmecocystus]. Type-species: Myrmecocystus melliger, by original designation.
    • Endiodioctes junior synonym of Myrmecocystus: Snelling, R.R. 1981: 403.


References

  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 99, Endiodioctes as junior synonym of Myrmecocystus)
  • Snelling, R. R. 1976. A revision of the honey ants, genus Myrmecocystus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angel. Cty. Sci. Bull. 24: 1-163 (page 25, Endiodioctes as subgenus of Myrmecocystus)
  • Snelling, R. R. 1981. Systematics of social Hymenoptera. Pp. 369-453 in: Hermann, H. R. (ed.) Social insects. Volume 2. New York: Academic Press, xiii + 491 pp. (page 403, Endiodioctes as junior synonym of Myrmecocystus)