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Melophorini
| Melophorini | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Melophorini Forel, 1912 |
| Type genus | |
| Melophorus | |
| Diversity | |
| 9 genera 172 species 0 fossil genera 1 fossil species | |
| Synonyms | |
Identification
List of Genera
Extant Genera
Fossil Genera
No fossil genera within tribe.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- MELOPHORINI [tribe of Formicinae]
- Melophorini Forel, 1912i: 88 (diagnosis in key). Type-genus: Melophorus Lubbock, 1883: 51.
Taxonomic History
- Melophorini as tribe of Camponotinae: Forel, 1912i: 88; Forel, 1917: 248.
- Melophorini as tribe of Formicinae: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 692; Emery, 1925b: 10; Wheeler, W.M. 1935c: 69; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 28, 130; Ward, et al. 2016: 347.
- Melophorini as senior synonym of Myrmecorhynchini, Notostigmatini: Ward, et al. 2016: 347.
Taxonomic References
Forel, 1893a: 165 (synoptic classification); Emery, 1895j: 772 (synoptic classification); Forel, 1917: 248 (synoptic classification); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 694 (genera key); Emery, 1925b: 10 (diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Brown, 1955d: 471 (review of tribe); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1970: 652 (larva diagnosis); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 62 (larva, review and synthesis); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 17 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1039 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 12 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 28, 130 (diagnosis, synopsis); Ward, et al. 2016: 347 (synopsis).