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Mesocrema
| Mesocrema | |
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| Crematogaster rasoherinae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Mesocrema Santschi, 1928 |
| Type species | |
| Crematogaster rasoherinae
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Crematogaster (Orthocrema).
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- MESOCREMA [junior synonym of Crematogaster (Orthocrema)]
- Mesocrema Santschi, 1928b: 33 [as subgenus of Crematogaster]. Type-species: Crematogaster rasoherinae, by subsequent designation of Donisthorpe, 1943f: 661.
- Mesocrema junior synonym of Crematogaster (Orthocrema): Blaimer 2012: 52.
References
- Blaimer, B.B. 2012. A subgeneric revision of Crematogaster and discussion of regional species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3482, 47–67.
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 35, Mesocrema as subgenus of Crematogaster)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 240, Mesocrema as subgenus of Crematogaster)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1973b. A comparison of the Hylean and Congo-West African rain forest ant faunas. Pp. 161-185 in: Meggers, B. J., Ayensu, E. S., Duckworth, W. D. (eds.) Tropical forest ecosystems in Africa and South America: a comparative review. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, viii + 350 pp. (page 182, Mesocrema as junior synonym of Crematogaster [provisional])
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 661, Type-species: Crematogaster rasoherinae, by subsequent designation)
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 13, Mesocrema as junior synonym of Crematogaster)
- Santschi, F. 1928b. Nouvelles fourmis de Chine et du Turkestan Russe. Bull. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 68: 31-46 (page 33, Mesocrema as subgenus of Crematogaster)
- Santschi, F. 1928b. Nouvelles fourmis de Chine et du Turkestan Russe. Bull. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 68: 31-46 (page 33, Mesocrema as subgenus of Crematogaster)
- Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V., Hurd, P. D., Smith, D. R., Burks, B. D. (eds.) Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209. (page 1376, Mesocrema as junior synonym of Crematogaster)