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Nimbamyrma
| Nimbamyrma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Nimbamyrma Bernard, 1953 |
| Type species | |
| Nimbamyrma villiersi, now Carebara villiersi
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Carebara.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- NIMBAMYRMA [junior synonym of Carebara]
- Nimbamyrma Bernard, 1953b: 240. Type-species: Nimbamyrma villiersi, by monotypy.
- Nimbamyrma junior synonym of Oligomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 120.
- Nimbamyrma junior synonym of Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 194.
References
- Bernard, F. 1953a. Les fourmis du Tassili des Ajjer. Pp. 121-250 in: Bernard, F. (ed.) Mission scientifique au Tassili des Ajjer (1949). Volume I. Recherches zoologiques et médicales. Paris: P. Lechevalier, 302 pp. (page 240, Nimbamyrma as genus; Nimbamyrma in Myrmicinae, Pheidologetini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 216, Nimbamyrma as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)
- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 120, Nimbamyrma as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)
- Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 194, Nimbamyrma as junior synonym of Carebara)