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Colobocrema
| Colobocrema | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Colobocrema Wheeler, W.M., 1927 |
| Type species | |
| Crematogaster cylindriceps
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Crematogaster (Crematogaster).
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- COLOBOCREMA [junior synonym of Crematogaster (Crematogaster)]
- Colobocrema Wheeler, W.M. 1927f: 31 [as subgenus of Crematogaster]. Type-species: Crematogaster (Colobocrema) cylindriceps, by monotypy.
- Colobocrema junior synonym of Crematogaster: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 13.
- Colobocrema subgenus of Crematogaster: Bolton, 1995b: 24.
- Colobocrema junior synonym of Crematogaster (Crematogaster): Blaimer 2012: 53.
References
- Blaimer, B.B. 2012. A subgeneric revision of Crematogaster and discussion of regional species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3482, 47–67.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 24, Colobocrema as subgenus of Crematogaster)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 240, Colobocrema as subgenus of Crematogaster)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J., Ayensu, E. S., Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Wash (page 179, Colobocrema as junior synonym of Crematogaster [provisional])
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 13, Colobocrema as junior synonym of Crematogaster)
- Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V., Hurd, P. D., Smith, D. R., Burks, B. D. (eds.) Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Pr (page 1376, Colobocrema as junior synonym of Crematogaster)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1927f. The physiognomy of insects. Q. Rev. Biol. 2: 1-36 (page 31, Colobocrema as subgenus of Crematogaster)