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Miccostruma
| Miccostruma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Miccostruma Brown, 1948 |
| Type species | |
| Epitritus mandibularis, now Strumigenys mandibularis
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Strumigenys.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- MICCOSTRUMA [junior synonym of Strumigenys]
- Miccostruma Brown, 1948e: 123. Type-species: Epitritus mandibularis, by original designation.
- Miccostruma junior synonym of Smithistruma: Bolton, 1983: 274.
- Miccostruma junior synonym of Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1668; Bolton, 2000: 91.
References
- Bolton, B. 1983. The Afrotropical dacetine ants (Formicidae). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 46: 267-416 (page 274, Miccostruma as junior synonym of Smithistruma)
- Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 3 33: 1639-1689 (page 1668, Miccostruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 65: 1-1028 (page 91, Miccostruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 190, Miccostruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 74: 101-129 (page 123, Miccostruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)