Aethiopopone

Aethiopopone
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Aethiopopone; Santschi, 1930
Type species
	Sphinctomyrmex rufiventris, now Zasphinctus rufiventris Specimen Labels;

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

Nomenclature

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

AETHIOPOPONE [junior synonym of Zasphinctus]
- Aethiopopone Santschi, 1930a: 49. Type-species: Sphinctomyrmex rufiventris, by monotypy.
- Aethiopopone junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex: Bolton, 1973a: 341; Brown, 1975: 31.
- Aethiopopone junior synonym of Zasphinctus: Borowiec, 2016: 237.

Bolton, B. 1973a. The ant genera of West Africa: a synonymic synopsis with keys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 27: 317-368 (page 341, Aethiopopone as junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex)
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 142, Aethiopopone as junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex)
Borowiec, M.L. 2016. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dorylinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 608: 1-280 (doi:10.3897/zookeys.608.9427).
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1975. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. V. Ponerinae, tribes Platythyreini, Cerapachyini, Cylindromyrmecini, Acanthostichini, and Aenictogitini. Search Agric. (Ithaca N. Y.) 5(1 1: 1-115 (page 31, Aethiopopone as junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex)
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 620, Aethiopopone in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini)
Santschi, F. 1930a. Description de Formicides éthiopiens nouveaux ou peu connus. V. Bull. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 70: 49-77 (page 49, Aethiopopone as genus)