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Creightonidris
| Creightonidris | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Creightonidris Brown, 1949 |
| Type species | |
| Creightonidris scambognatha, now Basiceros scambognathus
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Basiceros.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- CREIGHTONIDRIS [junior synonym of Basiceros]
- Creightonidris Brown, 1949f: 89. Type-species: Creightonidris scambognatha, by original designation.
- Creightonidris junior synonym of Basiceros: Fernández, 2003d: 314, 392; Feitosa, Brandão & Dietz, 2007: 17.
References
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 146, catalogue)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 184, Creightonidris in Myrmicinae, Basicerotini)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1949h. Revision of the ant tribe Dacetini: IV. Some genera properly excluded from the Dacetini, with the establishment of the Basicerotini new tribe. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 75: 83-96 (page 89, Creightonidris in Myrmicinae, Basicerotini)
- Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Stud. Entomol. (n.s.) 3: 161-250 (page 178, Review of genus)
- Fernández, F. 2003e. Subfamilia Myrmicinae. Pp. 307-330 in: Fernández, F. (ed.) Introducción a las hormigas de la región Neotropical. Bogotá: Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, xxvi + 424 pp. (page 314, 392, Creightonidris junior synonym of Basiceros)