Clarkistruma

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Clarkistruma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Attini
Genus: Clarkistruma
Brown, 1948
Type species
Epopostruma alinodis, now Colobostruma alinodis

Colobostruma alinodis P casent0280686.jpg

Colobostruma alinodis D casent0280686.jpg

Specimen Label

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

Nomenclature

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

  • CLARKISTRUMA [junior synonym of Colobostruma]
    • Clarkistruma Brown, 1948e: 124. Type-species: Epopostruma alinodis, by original designation.
    • Clarkistruma junior synonym of Colobostruma: Brown, 1959c: 1.


References

  • Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 3 33: 1639-1689 (page 1679, Clarkistruma as junior synonym of Colobostruma)
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 186, Clarkistruma as junior synonym of Colobostruma)
  • Brown, W. L., Jr. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 74: 101-129 (page 124, Clarkistruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)
  • Brown, W. L., Jr. 1959b. A revision of the dacetine ant genus Neostruma. Breviora 107: 1-13 (page 1, Clarkistruma as junior synonym of Colobostruma)
  • Brown, W. L., Jr.; Wilson, E. O. 1959b. The evolution of the dacetine ants. Q. Rev. Biol. 34: 278-294 (page 281, Clarkistruma as junior synonym of Colobostruma)
  • Shattuck, S. O. 2000. Genus Colobostruma. Genus Mesostruma. Genus Epopostruma. Pp. 31-67 in: Bolton, B. The ant tribe Dacetini. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 65: 1-1028 (page 31, Clarkistruma as junior synonym of Colobostruma)