Plagiolepidini
| Plagiolepidini | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Formicinae |
| Tribe: | Plagiolepidini Fore., 1886 |
| Type genus | |
| Plagiolepis | |
| Diversity | |
| 9 genera 306 species | |
| Synonyms | |
Contents
Identification
List of Genera
Extant Genera
Fossil Genera
No fossil genera within tribe.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- PLAGIOLEPIDINI [tribe of Formicinae]
- Plagiolepisii Forel, 1886f: 212. Type-genus: Plagiolepis Mayr, 1861: 42.
Taxonomic History
- Plagiolepidini as tribe of Camponotinae: Forel, 1886f: 212 [Plagiolepisii]; Forel, 1891b: 95 [Plagiolepisii]; Forel, 1893a: 165 [Plagiolepisii]; Emery, 1893i: 635 [Plagiolepidii]; Emery, 1895j: 771 [Plagiolepidii]; Forel, 1899c: 123 [Plagiolepidii]; Ruzsky, 1905b: 110 [Plagiolepidii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 143 [Plagiolepidii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1915h: 100; Forel, 1917: 249; Arnold, 1920a: 554.
- Plagiolepidini as tribe of Formicinae: Ashmead, 1905b: 384; Bondroit, 1918: 18; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 693; Emery, 1925b: 15; Santschi, 1926a: 13; subsequent authors; Bolton, 2003: 22, 100; Ward, et al. 2016: 348.
- Plagiolepidini as senior synonym of Bregmatomyrmini: Bolton, 2003: 22; Ward, et al. 2016: 348.
Taxonomic References
Forel, 1893a: 165 (synoptic classification); Emery, 1895j: 771 (synoptic classification); Forel, 1917: 249 (synoptic classification); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 695, 696, 697 (Plagiolepidini, Myrmelachistini, Prenolepidini genera keys); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 928, 1035 (Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1925b: 15 (diagnosis, genera key, catalogue); Santschi, 1926a: 13 (genera, synopsis); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1970: 652 (larva diagnosis); Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 64 (larvae, review and synthesis); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 (synoptic classification); Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18 (synoptic classification); Brandão, 1991: 393 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1039 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 9, 14 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003: 22, 100 (diagnosis, synopsis); LaPolla, Brady & Shattuck, 2010a: 118 (Prenolepis genus group revision, phylogeny, key to genera); LaPolla & Dlussky, 2010: 258 (Prenolepis genus group fossils); LaPolla, et al. 2012: 203 (Prenolepis genus group, key to genera); LaPolla & Fisher, 2014b: 39 (Prenolepis genus group, key to genera); Ward, et al. 2016: 348 (synopsis).
