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Arctomyrmex
| Arctomyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Solenopsidini |
| Genus: | Arctomyrmex Mann, 1921 |
| Type species | |
| Adelomyrmex hirsutus
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Adelomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ARCTOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Adelomyrmex]
- Arctomyrmex Mann, 1921: 457 [as subgenus of Adelomyrmex]. Type-species: Adelomyrmex (Arctomyrmex) hirsutus, by original designation.
- Arctomyrmex junior synonym of Adelomyrmex: Bolton, 1994: 106.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 106, Arctomyrmex as junior synonym of Adelomyrmex )
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 207, Arctomyrmex as junior synonym of Adelomyrmex )
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J., Ayensu, E. S., Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Wash (page 178, Arctomyrmex as junior synonym of Adelomyrmex (provisional))
- Mann, W. M. 1921. The ants of the Fiji Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 64: 401-499 (page 457, Arctomyrmex as subgenus of Adelomyrmex)