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Doronomyrmex
| Doronomyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Doronomyrmex Kutter, 1945 |
| Type species | |
| Doronomyrmex pacis, now Leptothorax pacis
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Leptothorax.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- DORONOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Leptothorax]
- Doronomyrmex Kutter, 1945: 485. Type-species: Doronomyrmex pacis, by monotypy.
- Doronomyrmex junior synonym of Leptothorax: Heinze, 1998: 195.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Doronomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 247, Doronomyrmex as junior synonym of Leptothorax)
- 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 180, Doronomyrmex provisional junior synonym of Leptothorax)
- Buschinger, A. 1981. Biological and systematic relationships of social parasitic Leptothoracini from Europe and North America. Pp. 211-222 in: Howse, P. E., Clement, J.-L. (eds.) Biosystematics of social insects. Systematics Association Special Volume N (page 211, Partial revision of genus)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 79, Doronomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini)
- Heinze, J. 1998 [1995]. The origin of workerless parasites in Leptothorax (s. str.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 102: 195-214 (page 195, Doronomyrmex as junior synonym of Leptothorax)
- Kutter, H. 1945a. Ein neue Ameisengattung. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 19: 485-487 (page 485, Doronomyrmex as genus)