Pseudocyrtomyrma

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Pseudocyrtomyrma
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Formicinae
Tribe: Camponotini
Genus: Pseudocyrtomyrma
Emery, 1921
Type species
Polyrhachis revoili

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Specimen Labels

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

Nomenclature

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

  • PSEUDOCYRTOMYRMA [junior synonym of Myrma]
    • Pseudocyrtomyrma Emery, 1921e: 18 [as subgenus of Polyrhachis]. Type-species: Polyrhachis revoili, by original designation.
    • Pseudocyrtomyrma junior synonym of Myrma: Bolton, 1973b: 288.


References

  • Bolton, B. 1973b. The ant genus Polyrhachis F. Smith in the Ethiopian region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bull. Br. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Entomol. 28: 283-369 (page 288, Pseudocyrtomyrma as junior synonym of Myrma)
  • Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 123, Pseudocyrtomyrma as junior synonym of Myrma)
  • Emery, C. 1921c. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [part]. Genera Insectorum 174A:1-94 94: 1-94 + 7 (page 18, Pseudocyrtomyrma as subgenus of Polyrhachis)
  • Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183: 1-302 (page 206, Pseudocyrtomyrma as subgenus of Polyrhachis)