Diodontolepis
Diodontolepis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Formicinae |
Tribe: | Melophorini |
Genus: | Diodontolepis Wheeler, W.M., 1920 |
Type species | |
Melophorus spinisquamis, now Notoncus spinisquamis
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Notoncus.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- DIODONTOLEPIS [junior synonym of Notoncus]
- Diodontolepis Wheeler, W.M. 1920: 53. Type-species: Melophorus spinisquamis, by original designation.
- Diodontolepis junior synonym of Melophorus: Emery, 1925b: 11.
- Diodontolepis revived status as genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1935c: 71.
- Diodontolepis junior synonym of Notoncus: Brown, 1955d: 477.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 50, Diodontolepis as junior synonym of Notoncus)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 110, Diodontolepis as junior synonym of Notoncus)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1955d. A revision of the Australian ant genus Notoncus Emery, with notes on the other genera of Melophorini. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113: 471-494 (page 477, Diodontolepis as junior synonym of Notoncus)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 639, Diodontolepis as genus)
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 11, Diodontolepis in Formicinae, Melophorini; Diodontolepis as junior synonym of Melophorus)
- Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO Div. Entomol. Rep. 41: 1-92 (page 47, Diodontolepis as junior synonym of Notoncus)
- Taylor, R. W. 1992a. Nomenclature and distribution of some Australian and New Guinean ants of the subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Aust. Entomol. Soc. 31: 57-69 (page 61, Diodontolepis as junior synonym of Notoncus)
- Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zool. Cat. Aust. 2:1- 149: 1-149, 30 (page 125, Diodontolepis as junior synonym of Notoncus)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 111: 255-264 (page 258, Diodontolepis as genus (anachronism))
- Wheeler, W. M. 1920. The subfamilies of Formicidae, and other taxonomic notes. Psyche (Camb.) 27: 46-55 (page 53, Diodontolepis as genus)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922i. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 631-710 (page 694, Diodontolepis in Formicinae, Melophorini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935c. Myrmecological notes. Psyche (Camb.) 42: 68-72 (page 71, Diodontolepis in Formicinae, Melophorini; as genus)