Biconomyrma
Biconomyrma | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
Tribe: | Leptomyrmecini |
Genus: | Biconomyrma Kusnezov, 1952 |
Type species | |
Dorymyrmex pyramicus brunneus, now Dorymyrmex brunneus
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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.
- BICONOMYRMA [junior synonym of Dorymyrmex]
- Biconomyrma Kusnezov, 1952g: 429 [as subgenus of Conomyrma]. Type-species: Dorymyrmex pyramicus var. brunneus (now Dorymyrmex brunneus), by subsequent designation of Kusnezov, 1959: 51.
- Biconomyrma raised to genus: Kusnezov, 1959: 51; Kusnezov, 1964: 67.
- Biconomyrma junior synonym of Conomyrma: Smith, M.R. 1958c: 140; Kempf, 1972a: 78.
- Biconomyrma junior synonym of Dorymyrmex: Shattuck, 1992c: 78.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 87, Biconomyrma as junior synonym of Dorymyrmex)
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da regia~o Neotropical. Stud. Entomol. 15: 3-344 (page 78, Biconomyrma as junior synonym of Conomyrma)
- Kusnezov, N. 1952j [1951]. El estado real del grupo Dorymyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zool. Lilloana 10: 427-448 (page 429, Biconomyrm as subgenus of Conomyrma)
- Kusnezov, N. 1959. Die Dolichoderinen-Gattungen von Süd-Amerika (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zool. Anz. 162: 38-51 (page 51, Biconomyrma as genus; Type-species: Dorymyrmex pyramicus var. brunneus (now Dorymyrmex brunneus); by subsequent designation)
- Kusnezov, N. 1964 [1963]. Zoogeografía de las hormigas en Sudamérica. Acta Zool. Lilloana 19: 25-186 (page 67, Biconomyrma as genus)
- Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21: 1-181 (page 78, Biconomyrma as junior synonym of Dorymyrmex)
- Smith, M. R. 1958c. Family Formicidae. Pp. 108-162 in: Krombein, K. V. (ed.) Hymenoptera of America north of Mexico. Synoptic catalogue. First supplement. U. S. Dep. Agric. Agric. Monogr. 2(suppl. 1):1-305. (page 140, Biconomyrma as junior synonym of Conomyrma)