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Prodicroaspis
| Prodicroaspis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Prodicroaspis Emery, 1914 |
| Type species | |
| Prodicroaspis sarasini, now Lordomyrma sarasini
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Lordomyrma.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- PRODICROASPIS [junior synonym of Lordomyrma]
- Prodicroaspis Emery, 1914f: 414. Type-species: Prodicroaspis sarasini, by monotypy.
- Prodicroaspis junior synonym of Lordomyrma: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 14; Bolton, 1994: 106.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 106, Prodicroaspis as junior synonym of Lordomyrma)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 204, Prodicroaspis as junior synonym of Lordomyrma)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 80, Prodicroaspis in Myrmicinae, Calyptomyrmecini)
- Emery, C. 1914e. Intorno alla classificazione dei Myrmicinae. Rend. Sess. R. Accad. Sci. Ist. Bologna Cl. Sci. Fis. (n.s.) 18: 29-42 (page 41, Prodicroaspis in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Emery, C. 1914f. Les fourmis de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Loyalty. Nova Caled. A Zool. 1: 393-437 (page 414, Prodicroaspis as genus)
- Emery, C. 1924f [1922]. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C: 207-397 (page 225, Prodicroaspis in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bull. Soc. Vaudoise Sci. Nat. 51: 229-253 (page 244, Prodicroaspis in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 14, Prodicroaspis as junior synonym of Lordomyrma)
- 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 663, Prodicroaspis in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1934a. Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition, 1933. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 21: 173-181 (page 176, Prodicroaspis in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935a. Two new genera of myrmicine ants from Papua and the Philippines. Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club 15: 1-9 (page 6, Meranoplini (in key))