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Acalama
| Acalama | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Acalama Smith, M.R., 1949 |
| Type species | |
| Acalama donisthorpei (junior synonym of Gauromyrmex acanthinus)
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Gauromyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ACALAMA [junior synonym of Gauromyrmex]
- Acalama Smith, M.R. 1949a: 206. Type-species: Acalama donisthorpei (junior synonym of Solenomyrma acanthina), by original designation.
- Acalama junior synonym of Gauromyrmex: Brown, 1953c: 10.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 246, Acalama junior synonym of Gauromyrmex)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953c. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part I. Breviora 11: 1-13. (page 10, Acalama junior synonym of Gauromyrmex)
- Smith, M. R. 1949a [1948]. A new genus and species of ant from India (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. N. Y. Entomol. Soc. 56: 205-208. (page 206, Acalama incertae sedis in Myrmicinae)