Acanthoclinea

Acanthoclinea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dolichoderinae
Tribe:	Dolichoderini
Genus:	Acanthoclinea; Wheeler, W.M., 1935
Type species
	Dolichoderus doriae Specimen labels;

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

Nomenclature

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

ACANTHOCLINEA [junior synonym of Dolichoderus]
- Acanthoclinea Wheeler, W.M. 1935c: 69 [as subgenus of Dolichoderus]. Type-species: Dolichoderus doriae, by original designation.
- Acanthoclinea raised to genus: Brown, 1950e: 249.
- Acanthoclinea junior synonym of Dolichoderus: Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 93; Shattuck, 1992c: 66.

Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 26, Acanthoclinea as junior synonym of Dolichoderus)
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 85, Acanthoclinea as junior synonym of Dolichoderus)
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1950g. Morphological, taxonomic, and other notes on ants. Wasmann J. Biol. 8: 241-250 (page 249, Acanthoclinea raised to genus)
Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 618, Acanthoclinea in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini)
Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21: 1-181 (page 66, Acanthoclinea as junior synonym of Dolichoderus)
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 93, Acanthoclinea as junior synonym of Dolichoderus)
Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Camb.) 42: 68-72. (page 69, Acanthoclinea as subgenus of Dolichoderus)