Myrmicarii

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Myrmicarii
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Solenopsidini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Myrmicarii
Forel, 1893
Type genus
Myrmicaria

This taxon is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Solenopsidini.

Nomenclature

The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.

  • MYRMICARIINI [junior synonym of Solenopsidini]
    • Myrmicarii Forel, 1893a: 165. Type-genus: Myrmicaria Saunders, W.W. 1842: 57.

Taxonomic History

  • Myrmicariini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Forel, 1893a: 165 [Myrmicarii]; Emery, 1895j: 770 [Myrmicarii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 141 [Myrmicarii]; Ashmead, 1905b: 383 [Myrmicariini]; Emery, 1914a: 36; Arnold, 1916: 261; Forel, 1917: 242; Emery, 1922e: 120; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 656; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 68, 242.
  • Myrmicariini as junior synonym of Solenopsidini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

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