Leptopone
Leptopone | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Ponerinae |
Tribe: | Ponerini |
Genus: | Leptopone Arnold, 1916 |
Type species | |
Glyphopone rufigaster (junior synonym of Centromyrmex bequaerti) |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Centromyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- LEPTOPONE [junior synonym of Centromyrmex]
- Leptopone Arnold, 1916: 163 [as subgenus of Glyphopone]. Type-species: Glyphopone (Leptopone) rufigaster (junior synonym of Glyphopone bequaerti), by original designation.
- Leptopone raised to genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 647.
- Leptopone junior synonym of Centromyrmex: Brown, 1963: 9.
References
- Arnold, G. 1916. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part II. Ponerinae, Dorylinae. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 14: 159-270 (page 163, Leptopone as subgenus of Glyphopone; Leptopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 161, Leptopone as junior synonym of Centromyrmex)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1963a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part III. Some members of the tribe Ponerini (Ponerinae, Formicidae). Breviora 190: 1-10 (page 9, Leptopone as junior synonym of Centromyrmex)
- 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 647, Leptopone in Ponerinae, Ponerini; as genus)