Phalacromyrmecini

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Phalacromyrmecini
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Attini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Tribe: Phalacromyrmecini
Dlussky & Fedoseeva: 1988
Type genus
Phalacromyrmex

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

Nomenclature

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

  • PHALACROMYRMECINI [junior synonym of Attini]
    • Phalacromyrmecini Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80. Type-genus: Phalacromyrmex Kempf, 1960b: 89.

Taxonomic History

  • [Phalacromyrmecini Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 60, and Phalacromyrmecini Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 258; unavailable names, proposed without diagnosis.]
  • Phalacromyrmecini as junior synonym of Dacetini: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 10; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 81.
  • Phalacromyrmecini as tribe of Myrmicinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 106; Bolton, 1998: 72; Bolton, 2003: 54, 192; Ward, 2007a: 557.
  • Phalacromyrmecini as junior synonym of Attini: Ward, et al. 2015: 77.

Taxonomic References

Bolton, 1984: 381 (diagnosis, key); Bolton, 1994: 106 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1041 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 14 (catalogue); Bolton, 1998: 72 (comparative morphology, monophyly, relationships); Bolton, 2003: 54, 192 (diagnosis, synopsis); Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 81 (classification).

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