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 | |
Contents
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).
