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Acidomyrmex
| Acidomyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Acidomyrmex Emery, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Rhoptromyrmex wroughtonii, now Tetramorium wroughtonii
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Tetramorium.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ACIDOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Tetramorium]
- Acidomyrmex Emery, 1915i: 191 [as subgenus of Rhoptromyrmex]. Type-species: Rhoptromyrmex wroughtonii, by original designation.
- Acidomyrmex raised to genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 664, 672.
- Acidomyrmex junior synonym of Rhoptromyrmex: Brown, 1964c: 11; Bolton, 1986a: 2.
References
- Bolton, B. 1976. The ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Constituent genera, review of smaller genera and revision of Triglyphothrix Forel. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 34: 281-379 (page 298, Acidomyrmex as junior synonym of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Bolton, B. 1986a. A taxonomic and biological review of the tetramoriine ant genus Rhoptromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Syst. Entomol. 11: 1-17 (page 2, Acidomyrmex as junior synonym of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 225, Acidomyrmex as junior synonym of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1964e. Genus Rhoptromyrmex, revision of, and key to species. Pilot Regist. Zool. Card No. 11. (page 11, Acidomyrmex as junior synonym of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327 (page 173, Acidomyrmex as 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 619, Acidomyrmex as subgenus of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Emery, C. 1915g. Noms de sous-genres et de genres proposés pour la sous-famille des Myrmicinae. Modifications à la classification de ce groupe (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1915: 189-192 (page 191, Acidomyrmex as subgenus of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Emery, C. 1915g. Noms de sous-genres et de genres proposés pour la sous-famille des Myrmicinae. Modifications à la classification de ce groupe (Hymenoptera Formicidae). Bull. Soc. Entomol. Fr. 1915: 189-192 (page 191, Acidomyrmex as subgenus of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Emery, C. 1924f [1922]. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C: 207-397 (page 290, Acidomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini; Acidomyrmex as subgenus of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 51: 229-253 (page 245, Acidomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini; Acidomyrmex as subgenus of Rhoptromyrmex)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922i. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 631-710 (page 664, 672, Acidomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini; Acidomyrmex as genus)