Nycteresia

Nycteresia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Nycteresia; Roger, 1861
Type species
	Formica coeca, now Labidus coecus Specimen Label;

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

Nomenclature

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

NYCTERESIA [junior synonym of Labidus]
- Nycteresia Roger, 1861a: 21. Type-species: Formica coeca, by monotypy.
- Nycteresia junior synonym of Eciton: Mayr, 1865: 76.
- Nycteresia junior synonym of Labidus: Emery, 1910b: 21; Borgmeier, 1955: 80.

Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 144, Nycteresia as junior synonym of Labidus)
Borgmeier, T. 1955. Die Wanderameisen der neotropischen Region. Stud. Entomol. 3: 1-720 (page 80, Nycteresia as junior synonym of Labidus)
Dalla Torre, K. W. von. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. (page 1, Nycteresia as junior synonym of Eciton)
Donisthorpe, H. 1943d. A myrmecophilous woodlouse. Nature (Lond.) 151: 675-676 (page 675, Nycteresia as junior synonym of Labidus)
Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34 (page 21, Nycteresia as junior synonym of Labidus)
Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verh. K-K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 12: 649-776 (page 714, Nycteresia in Ponerinae [Poneridae])
Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp. (page 76, Nycteresia as junior synonym of Eciton)
Roger, J. 1861a. Die Ponera-artigen Ameisen (Schluss). Berl. Entomol. Z. 5: 1-54 (page 21, Nycteresia as genus)