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Archaeomyrmex
| Archaeomyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Myrmecinini |
| Genus: | Archaeomyrmex Mann, 1921 |
| Type species | |
| Archaeomyrmex cacabau, now Myrmecina cacabau
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Myrmecina.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ARCHAEOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Myrmecina]
- Archaeomyrmex Mann, 1921: 448. Type-species: Archaeomyrmex cacabau, by original designation.
- Archaeomyrmex junior synonym of Myrmecina: Brown, 1971a: 1.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 255, Archaeomyrmex as junior synonym of Myrmecina)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1971a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part IV. Some genera of subfamily Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Breviora 365: 1-5 (page 1, Archaeomyrmex as junior synonym of Myrmecina)
- Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499 (page 448, 449, Archaeomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Archaeomyrmecini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922i. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 631-710 (page 663, Archaeomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Archaeomyrmecini)