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Antillaemyrmex
| Antillaemyrmex | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Antillaemyrmex Mann, 1920 |
| Type species | |
| Macromischa (Antillaemyrmex) terricola, now Temnothorax terricola | |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Temnothorax.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ANTILLAEMYRMEX [junior synonym of Temnothorax]
- Antillaemyrmex Mann, 1920: 408 [as subgenus of Macromischa]. Type-species: Macromischa (Antillaemyrmex) terricola, by original designation.
- Antillaemyrmex raised to genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1931b: 4 (in text).
- Antillaemyrmex junior synonym of Macromischa: Smith, M.R. 1937: 849; Smith, M.R. 1939e: 502.
- Antillaemyrmex junior synonym of Leptothorax: Snelling, R.R. 1986: 154.
- Antillaemyrmex junior synonym of Temnothorax: Bolton, 2003: 253, 271.
References
- Baroni Urbani, C. 1978b. Materiali per una revisione dei Leptothorax neotropicali appartenenti al sottogenere Macromischa Roger, n. comb. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Entomol. Basil. 3: 395-618 (page 398, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Macromischa)
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Macromischa)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 253, 271, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Temnothorax)
- Mann, W. M. 1920b. Additions to the ant fauna of the West Indies and Central America. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 42: 403-439 (page 408, Antillaemyrmex as subgenus of Macromischa)
- Smith, M. R. 1937 [1936]. The ants of Puerto Rico. J. Agric. Univ. P. R. 20: 819-875 (page 849, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Macromischa)
- Smith, M. R. 1939e. Ants of the genus Macromischa Roger in the United States (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 32: 502-509. (page 502, Antillaemyrmex as junior synonym of Macromischa)
- Snelling, R. R. 1986. New synonymy in Caribbean ants of the genus Leptothorax (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 88: 154-156 (page 154, Antillaemyrmex junior synonym of Leptothorax)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1931b. New and little-known ants of the genera Macromischa, Creosomyrmex and Antillaemyrmex. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 72: 1-34 (page 4, 32, Antillaemyrmex as genus)