Cepobroticus

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Cepobroticus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Solenopsidini
Genus: Cepobroticus
Wheeler, W.M., 1925
Type species
Megalomyrmex symmetochus

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Specimen Label

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

Nomenclature

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

  • CEPOBROTICUS [junior synonym of Megalomyrmex]
    • Cepobroticus Wheeler, W.M. 1925d: 168 [as subgenus of Megalomyrmex]. Type-species: Megalomyrmex (Cepobroticus) symmetochus, by monotypy.
    • Cepobroticus junior synonym of Megalomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 101; Brandão, 1990: 415.


References

  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 211, Cepobroticus as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
  • Brandão, C. R. F. 1990b. Systematic revision of the Neotropical ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), with the description of thirteen new species. Arq. Zool. (São Paulo) 31: 411-481 (page 415, Cepobroticus as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
  • Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 101, Cepobroticus as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
  • Wheeler, W. M. 1925e. A new guest-ant and other new Formicidae from Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Biol. Bull. (Woods Hole) 49: 150-181 (page 168, Cepobroticus as subgenus of Megalomyrmex)