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Odontomyrmex
| Odontomyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Myrmecinini |
| Genus: | Odontomyrmex André, 1905 |
| Type species | |
| Odontomyrmex quadridentatus, now Pristomyrmex quadridentatus
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Pristomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- ODONTOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Pristomyrmex]
- Odontomyrmex André, 1905: 207. Type-species: Odontomyrmex quadridentatus, by monotypy.
- Odontomyrmex subgenus of Pristomyrmex: Forel, 1917: 244; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 682.
- Odontomyrmex junior synonym of Pristomyrmex: Mann, 1919: 341; Emery, 1924d: 233; Taylor, 1965b: 35; Bolton, 1981b: 282.
References
- André, E. 1905. Description d'un genre nouveau et de deux espèces nouvelles de fourmis d'Australie. Rev. Entomol. (Caen) 24: 205-208. (page 207, Odontomyrmex as genus)
- Bolton, B. 1981b. A revision of six minor genera of Myrmicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Ethiopian zoogeographical region. Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 43: 245-307 (page 282, Odontomyrmex as junior synonym of Pristomyrmex)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 256, Odontomyrmex as junior synonym of Pristomyrmex)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1953c. Characters and synonymies among the genera of ants. Part I. Breviora 11: 1-13 (page 9, Odontomyrmex as junior synonym of Pristomyrmex)
- Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monogr. Inst. Sci. Technol. Manila 1: 1-327 (page 121, Odontomyrmex as subgenus of Pristomyrmex (anachronism))
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 617-688 (page 676, Odontomyrmex as junior synonym of Pristomyrmex)
- Emery, C. 1924f [1922]. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C: 207-397 (page 233, Odontomyrmex as junior synonym of Pristomyrmex)
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 51: 229-253 (page 244, Odontomyrmex as subgenus of Pristomyrmex)
- Mann, W. M. 1919. The ants of the British Solomon Islands. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 63: 273-391 (page 341, Odontomyrmex as junior synonym of Pristomyrmex)
- Taylor, R. W. 1965b. The Australian ants of the genus Pristomyrmex, with a case of apparent character displacement. Psyche (Camb.) 72: 35-54 (page 35, Odontomyrmex as junior synonym of Pristomyrmex)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910b. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. (page 139, Odontomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922i. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa. VII. Keys to the genera and subgenera of ants. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 45: 631-710 (page 682, Odontomyrmex as subgenus of Pristomyrmex)