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Amauromyrmex
| Amauromyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Amauromyrmex Wheeler, W.M., 1929 |
| Type species | |
| Amauromyrmex speculifrons (junior synonym of Carebara silenus)
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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.
- AMAUROMYRMEX [junior synonym of Carebara]
- Amauromyrmex Wheeler, W.M. 1929b: 1. Type-species: Amauromyrmex speculifrons (junior synonym of Pheidole silenus), by original designation.
- Amauromyrmex junior synonym of Pheidologeton: Ettershank, 1966: 115.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 217, Amauromyrmex as junior synonym of Pheidologeton)
- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 115, Amauromyrmex as junior synonym of Pheidologeton)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1929b. Three new genera of ants from the Dutch East Indies. American Museum Novitates 349: 1-8 (page 1, 3, Amauromyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetini)