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Mictoponera
| Mictoponera | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Mictoponera Forel, 1901 |
| Type species | |
| Ectatomma (Mictoponera) diehlii, now Holcoponera cribrata
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Holcoponera.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- MICTOPONERA [junior synonym of Holcoponera]
- Mictoponera Forel, 1901e: 372 [as subgenus of Ectatomma]. Type-species: Ectatomma (Mictoponera) diehlii Forel, 1901e: 372 (junior synonym of Rhopalopone cribrata Emery, 1900c: 311), by monotypy.
Taxonomic history
- Mictoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma: Forel, 1901e: 372; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 135; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 662.
- Mictoponera as junior synonym of Alfaria: Ashmead, 1905b: 382.
- Mictoponera as junior synonym of Rhopalopone: Emery, 1911d: 34.
- Mictoponera as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 212; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 35; Bolton, 2003: 174.
- Mictoponera as junior synonym of Holcoponera: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
- [MYCTOPONERA: incorrect subsequent spelling by Emery, 1911d: 34.]
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 174, Mictoponera as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362 (page 211, Mictoponera junior synonym of Gnamptogenys)
- Camacho, G.P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R., Longino, J.T., Schultz, T.R., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among Ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(1): 5; 1–20 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab026).
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125 (page 34, Mictoponera as junior synonym of Rhopalopone)
- Forel, A. 1901j. Variétés myrmécologiques. Ann. Soc. Entomol. Belg. 45: 334-382 (page 372, Mictoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910b. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. (page 135, Mictoponera as subgenus of Ectatomma)