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Heptastruma
| Heptastruma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Heptastruma Weber, 1934 |
| Type species | |
| Heptastruma wheeleri, now Rhopalothrix weberi
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Rhopalothrix.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- HEPTASTRUMA [junior synonym of Rhopalothrix]
- Heptastruma Weber, 1934a: 54. Type-species: Heptastruma wheeleri (junior secondary homonym in Rhopalothrix, replaced by Rhopalothrix weberi), by original designation.
- Heptastruma junior synonym of Rhopalothrix: Brown & Kempf, 1960: 230.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 185, Heptastruma as junior synonym of Rhopalothrix)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 74: 101-129 (page 102, Heptastruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)
- 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 94, Heptastruma 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 230, Heptastruma as junior synonym of Rhopalothrix)
- 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 650, Heptastruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)
- Weber, N. A. 1934a. Notes on neotropical ants, including the descriptions of new forms. Rev. Entomol. (Rio J.) 4: 22-59 (page 54, Heptastruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)