Meia

Meia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Myrmicinae
Tribe:	Crematogastrini
Genus:	Meia Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990
Type species
Not required

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.

• MEIA [junior synonym of Nesomyrmex]
  • Meia Pagliano & Scaramozzino, 1990: 5. [Unnecessary replacement name for Goniothorax Emery, 1896g: 58; junior homonym of Goniothorax Milne-Edwards, 1879: 103 (Crustacea).]
  • [Nesomyrmex is the first available replacement name for Goniothorax Emery, therefore Meia is automatically a junior synonym of Nesomyrmex: Bolton, 1994: 105.]

References

• Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Nesomyrmex is the first available replacement name for Goniothorax Emery, therefore Meia is a junior synonym of Nesomyrmex)
• Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 250, Meia as junior synonym of Nesomyrmex; Nesomyrmex is the first available replacement name for Goniothorax Emery, therefore Meia is automatically a junior synonym of Nesomyrmex.)
• Pagliano, G.; Scaramozzino, P. 1990 [1989]. Elenco dei generi di Hymenoptera del mundo. Memorie della Societa Entomologica Italiana 68: 1-210 (page 5, Meia; unnecessary replacement name for Goniothorax; Goniothorax senior homonym of Goniothorax Emery, 1896. ; Goniothorax Emery ,1896 junior homonym of Goniothorax Milne-Edwards, 1879)