Lithomyrmex Clark
For a list of taxa which share this name see Lithomyrmex (disambiguation).
Lithomyrmex | |
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Onychomyrmex glauerti | |
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Onychomyrmex) | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Family: | Formicidae |
Subfamily: | Amblyoponinae |
Genus: | Lithomyrmex Clark, 1928 |
Type species | |
Lithomyrmex glauerti, now Onychomyrmex glauerti
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Onychomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- LITHOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Stigmatomma]
- Lithomyrmex Clark, 1928a: 30. Type-species: Lithomyrmex glauerti, by original designation.
- Lithomyrmex junior synonym of Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 156.
- Lithomyrmex junior synonym of Stigmatomma: Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012:17.
- Lithomyrmex junior synonym of Onychomyrmex: Ward & Fisher, 2016: 691.
References
- Clark, J. 1928a. 4.- Australian Formicidae. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia, 14: 29–41.
- Ward, P.S. & Fisher, B.L. 2016. Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology, 41, 683–693 (doi:10.1111/syen.12186).
- Yoshimura, M. & Fisher, B.L. 2012. A revision of male ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with resurrections of the genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer. PLoS ONE 7(3):e33325 (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325).