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Neostruma
| Neostruma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Attini |
| Genus: | Neostruma Brown, 1948 |
| Type species | |
| Strumigenys crassicornis, now Strumigenys crassicornis
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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.
- NEOSTRUMA [junior synonym of Strumigenys]
- Neostruma Brown, 1948e: 111. Type-species: Strumigenys crassicornis, by original designation.
- Neostruma junior synonym of Pyramica: Bolton, 1999: 1668; Bolton, 2000: 91.
- Neostruma junior synonym of Strumigenys: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 12; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 102.
References
- Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 1994. First description of fossil Dacetini ants with a critical analysis of the current classification of the tribe (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VI: Dacetini). Stuttg. Beitr. Naturkd. Ser. B (Geol. Paläontol.) 198: 1-65 (page 12, Neostruma as junior synonym of Strumigenys)
- Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). J. Nat. Hist. 3 33: 1639-1689 (page 1668, Neostruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
- Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 65: 1-1028 (page 91, Neostruma as junior synonym of Pyramica)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 190, Neostruma 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 111, Neostruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1959b. A revision of the dacetine ant genus Neostruma. Breviora 107: 1-13 (page 1, Revision of genus)