Barbourella

Barbourella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Ectatomminae
Tribe:	Ectatommini
Genus:	Barbourella; Wheeler, W.M., 1930
Type species
	Emeryella (Barbourella) banksi, now Poneracantha banksi Specimen Label;

This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Poneracantha.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

BARBOURELLA [junior synonym of Poneracantha]
- Barbourella Wheeler, W.M. 1930f: 10 [as subgenus of Emeryella]. Type-species: Emeryella (Barbourella) banksi Wheeler, W.M. 1930f: 10, by original designation.

Barbourella as subgenus of Emeryella: Donisthorpe, 1943f: 627.
Barbourella as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 212; Kempf, 1972a: 111; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Bolton, 2003: 175.
Barbourella as junior synonym of Poneracantha: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.

Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 175, Barbourella as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys)
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362 (page 212, Barbourella as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys)
Camacho, G.P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R., Longino, J.T., Schultz, T.R., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among Ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(1): 5; 1–20 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab026).
Wheeler, W. M. 1930h. A new Emeryella from Panama. Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club 12: 9-13 (page 10, Barbourella as subgenus of Emeryella)