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Parectatomma
| Parectatomma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Ectatomminae |
| Tribe: | Ectatommini |
| Genus: | Parectatomma Emery, 1911 |
| Type species | |
| Ectatomma triangulare, now Poneracantha triangularis
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Poneracantha.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- PARECTATOMMA [junior synonym of Poneracantha]
- Parectatomma Emery, 1911d: 44 [as subgenus of Ectatomma]. Type-species: Ectatomma (Gnamptogenys) triangulare Mayr, 1887: 544, by original designation.
Taxonomic history
- Parectatomma as subgenus of Gnamptogenys: Forel, 1917: 236.
- Parectatomma as subgenus of Ectatomma: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 643; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 682; Creighton, 1950a: 35; Kusnezov, 1956: 14.
- Parectatomma as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys: Brown, 1958g: 212; Kempf, 1972a: 111; Smith, D.R. 1979: 1337; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 174.
- Parectatomma as junior synonym of Poneracantha: Camacho, Franco, Branstetter, et al. 2022: 11.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 174, Parectatomma as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys)
- Brown, W. L., Jr. 1958g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. II. Tribe Ectatommini (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 118: 173-362 (page 212, Parectatomma as junior synonym of Gnamptogenys)
- Camacho, G.P., Franco, W., Branstetter, M.G., Pie, M.R., Longino, J.T., Schultz, T.R., Feitosa, R.M. 2022. UCE phylogenomics resolves major relationships among Ectaheteromorph ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ectatomminae, Heteroponerinae): A new classification for the subfamilies and the description of a new genus. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6(1): 5; 1–20 (doi:10.1093/isd/ixab026).
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104: 1-585 (page 35, Parectatomma as subgenus of Ectatomma)
- Emery, C. 1911e. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Ponerinae. Genera Insectorum 118: 1-125 (page 44, Parectatomma as subgenus of Ectatomma)
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 51: 229-253 (page 236, Parectatomma subgenus of Gnamptogenys)
- Kusnezov, N. 1956a. Claves para la identificación de las hormigas de la fauna argentina. Idia 104- 105: 1-56 (page 14, Parectatomma as subgenus of Ectatomma)
- 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 643, Parectatomma subgenus of Gnamptogenys)