Ammomyrma
Ammomyrma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
Genus: | Ammomyrma Santschi, 1922 |
Type species | |
Dorymyrmex exsanguis
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Dorymyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- AMMOMYRMA [junior synonym of Dorymyrmex]
- Ammomyrma Santschi, 1922b: 365 [as subgenus of Dorymyrmex]. Type-species: Dorymyrmex exsanguis, by original designation.
- Ammomyrma junior synonym of Araucomyrmex: Snelling, R.R. & Hunt, 1976: 93.
- Ammomyrma junior synonym of Dorymyrmex: Shattuck, 1992c: 77.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 87, Ammomyrma as junior synonym of Dorymyrmex)
- Gallardo, A. 1930. Sobre el género Dorymyrmex Mayr en la Argentina. Rev. Chil. Hist. Nat. 34: 143-148 (page 147, Ammomyrma as subgenus of Dorymyrmex])
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da regia~o Neotropical. Stud. Entomol. 15: 3-344 (page 100, Ammomyrma as subgenus of Dorymyrmex])
- Santschi, F. 1922c. Myrmicines, dolichodérines et autres formicides néotropiques. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 54: 345-378 (page 365, Ammomyrma as subgenus of Dorymyrmex])
- Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21: 1-181 (page 77, Ammomyrma as junior synonym of Dorymyrmex)
- Snelling, R. R.; Hunt, J. H. 1975. The ants of Chile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Rev. Chil. Entomol. 9: 63-129 (page 93, Ammomyrma as junior synonym of Araucomyrmex)