Cryptoceridae

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Cryptoceridae
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Attini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Cryptoceridae
Smith, 1853
Type genus
Cryptocerus

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

Nomenclature

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

  • CRYPTOCERIDAE [junior synonym of Attini]
    • Cryptoceridae Smith, F. 1853: 214. Type-genus: Cryptocerus Latreille, 1803: 311 (junior synonym of Cephalotes Latreille, 1802a: 357).

Taxonomic History

  • Cryptoceridae as group of Myrmicidae: Smith, F. 1853: 214.
  • Cryptoceridae as subfamily of Poneridae: Smith, F. 1858b: 187.
  • Cryptoceridae as family: Smith, F. 1860a: 75; Smith, F. 1862a: 49; Smith, F. 1862d: 408; Smith, F. 1871a: 334; Ashmead, 1905b: 383.
  • Cryptoceridae as subfamily of Formicidae: Smith, F. 1857a: 79; Smith, F. 1862b: 35; Smith, F. 1862d: 408; Smith, F. 1867: 523.
  • Cryptoceridae as group of Myrmicinae: Emery, 1877a: 72.
  • Cryptoceridae as junior synonym of Myrmicinae: Emery & Forel, 1879a: 456.
  • Cryptoceridae as tribe or subfamily of Myrmicidae: Forel, 1891b: 143 [Cryptocerini]; Emery, 1894g: 383 [Cryptocerinae].
  • Cryptoceridae as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1892d: 344 [Cryptocerini]; Forel, 1893a: 164 [Cryptocerii]; Forel, 1895b: 132 [Cryptocerii]; Emery, 1895j: 763 [Cryptocerii]; Forel, 1899c: 43 [Cryptocerii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 141 [Cryptocerii]; Forel, 1892d: 344 [Cryptocerini]; Emery, 1914a: 39 [Cryptocerini]; Emery, 1915i: 192 [Cryptocerini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1915e: 491 [Cryptoceriini (in text)]; Forel, 1917: 246 [Cryptocerini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 657 [Cryptocerini]; Emery, 1924d: 299 [Cryptocerini]; subsequent authors; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 59 [Cryptocerini]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79 [Cryptocerini].
  • Cryptoceridae as junior synonym of Cephalotini: Smith, M.R. 1949c: 18; Kempf, 1951: 11; subsequent authors. [Cephalotini retains priority over Cryptoceridae under Article 40.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (4th Edition), 1999: 46.]
  • Cryptoceridae as junior synonym of Attini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

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