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Afroxyidris
| Afroxyidris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Afroxyidris Belshaw & Bolton, 1994 |
| Type species | |
| Afroxyidris crigensis, now Carebara crigensis
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Carebara.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- AFROXYIDRIS [junior synonym of Carebara]
- Afroxyidris Belshaw & Bolton, 1994: 631. Type-species: Afroxyidris crigensis, by original designation.
- Afroxyidris junior synonym of Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 194.
References
- Belshaw, R.; Bolton, B. 1994a. A new myrmicine ant genus from cocoa leaf litter in Ghana (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 28: 631-634 (page 631, Afroxyidris in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetonini)
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 106, Afroxyidris in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetonini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 208, Aftroxyidris in Myrmicinae,Solenopsidini)
- Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 194, Aftroxyidris as junior synonym of Carebara)