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Limnomyrmex
| Limnomyrmex | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Limnomyrmex Arnold, 1948 |
| Type species | |
| Limnomyrmex stramineus, now Nesomyrmex stramineus | |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Nesomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- LIMNOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Nesomyrmex]
- Limnomyrmex Arnold, 1948: 222. Type-species: Limnomyrmex stramineus, by original designation.
- Limnomyrmex junior synonym of Nesomyrmex: Brown, 1971a: 4.
- Limnomyrmex junior synonym of Leptothorax: Bolton, 1982: 319.
- Limnomyrmex junior synonym of Nesomyrmex: Bolton, 2003: 250, 272.
References
- Arnold, G. 1948. New species of African Hymenoptera. No. 8. Occas. Pap. Natl. Mus. South. Rhod. 2: 213-250 (page 222, Limnomyrmex as genus)
- Bolton, B. 1982. Afrotropical species of the myrmecine ant genera Cardiocondyla, Leptothorax, Melissotarsus, Messor and Cataulacus (Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology, 46: 307-370 (page 319, Limnomyrmex junior synonym of Leptothorax)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 250, 272, Limnomyrmex as junior synonym of Nesomyrmex)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1971a. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part IV. Some genera of subfamily Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Breviora 365: 1-5 (page 4, Limnomyrmex as junior synonym of Nesomyrmex)