Cataulacii

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Cataulacii
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Crematogastrini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Cataulacii
Emery, 1895
Type genus
Cataulacus

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

Nomenclature

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

  • CATAULACINI [junior synonym of Crematogastrini]
    • Cataulacii Emery, 1895j: 771. Type-genus: Cataulacus Smith, F. 1853: 225.

Taxonomic History

  • Cataulacini as subfamily of Cryptoceridae: Ashmead, 1905b: 384 [Cataulacinae].
  • Cataulacini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Emery, 1895j: 771 [Cataulacii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 142 [Cataulacii]; Emery, 1914a: 39 [Cataulacini]; Arnold, 1917: 386; Forel, 1917: 246; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 657; Emery, 1924d: 294; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 55, 193.
  • Cataulacini as junior synonym of Crematogastrini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

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