Odontomachidae

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Odontomachidae
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Ponerini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Odontomachidae
Mayr, 1862
Type genus
Odontomachus

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

Nomenclature

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

  • ODONTOMACHIDAE [junior synonym of Ponerini]
    • Odontomachidae Mayr, 1862: 708. Type-genus: Odontomachus Latreille, 1804: 179.

Taxonomic History

  • Odontomachidae as subfamily of Formicidae: Mayr, 1862: 708 [Odontomachidae]; Mayr, 1865: 11 [Odontomachidae]; Clark, 1951: 15 (in key) [Odontomachinae].
  • Odontomachidae as family: Smith, F. 1871a: 319; Cresson, 1887: 93; Ashmead, 1905b: 382.
  • Odontomachidae as tribe of Ponerinae: Forel, 1893a: 163 [Odontomachii]; Forel, 1895b: 117 [Odontomachii]; Emery, 1895j: 768 [Odontomachii]; Forel, 1899c: 18 [Odontomachii]; Forel, 1900c: 57 [Odontomachii]; Emery, 1901a: 36 [Odontomachii]; Ruzsky, 1905b: 174 [Odontomachii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 135 [Odontomachii]; Emery, 1911d: 106 [Odontomachini]; Forel, 1917: 238 [Odontomachini]; Gallardo, 1918b: 6 [Odontomachini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 636 [Odontomachini]; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 39 [Odontomachini]; Wilson, 1959a: 483 [Odontomachini]; Kusnezov, 1964: 53 [Odontomachini]; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 51 [Odontomachini]; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1344 [Odontomachini]; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 256 [Odontomachini]; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78 [Odontomachini]; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11 [Odontomachini]; Jaffe, 1993: 8 [Odontomachini].
  • Odontomachidae as subtribe of Ponerini: Brown, 1976a: 71 [Odontomachiti].
  • Odontomachidae as junior synonym of Ponerini: Emery & Forel, 1879a: 455; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 1995b: 14; Bolton, 2003: 43, 158; Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 52.

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