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Brownidris
| Brownidris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Brownidris Kusnezov, 1956 |
| Type species | |
| Brownidris argentinus, now Ochetomyrmex semipolitus
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- BROWNIDRIS [junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex]
- Brownidris Kusnezov, 1956: 25 (diagnosis in key). Type-species: Brownidris argentinus, by original designation.
- [Brownidris also described as new by Kusnezov, 1957a: 275.]
- Brownidris junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex: Kempf, 1975c: 355; Bolton, 1994: 106.
- [Brownidris retained as genus: Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 257 (anachronism); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80 (anachronism)].
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 106, Brownidris as junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 250, Brownidris as junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 80, Brownidris as genus (anachronism))
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 80, Brownidris in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmicini)
- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 81, Brownidris in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmex genus group)
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da regia~o Neotropical. Stud. Entomol. 15: 3-344 (page 41, Brownidris in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini)
- Kempf, W. W. 1975c. Miscellaneous studies on neotropical ants. VI. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Stud. Entomol. 18: 341-380 (page 355, Brownidris as junior synonym of Ochetomyrmex)
- Kusnezov, N. 1956a. Claves para la identificación de las hormigas de la fauna argentina. Idia 104- 105: 1-56 (page 25, Brownidris; (diagnosis in key) as genus)
- Kusnezov, N. 1957b. Die Solenopsidinen-Gattungen von Südamerika (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Zool. Anz. 158: 266-280 (page 275, Brownidris also described as new; Brownidris in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini)
- Kusnezov, N. 1962b. Una nueva especie del género Brownidris Kusnezov (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Acta Zool. Lilloana 18: 155-161 (page 159, Brownidris in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 111: 255-264 (page 257, Brownidris as genus (anachronism))