Shuckardia

Shuckardia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Family:	Formicidae
Subfamily:	Dorylinae
Genus:	Shuckardia; Emery, 1895
Type species
	Dorylus atriceps Specimen Labels;

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

Nomenclature

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

SHUCKARDIA [junior synonym of Alaopone]
- Shuckardia Emery, 1895j: 703 [as subgenus of Dorylus]. Type-species: Dorylus atriceps, by original designation.
- [Type-species not Alaopone abeillei, unjustified subsequent designation by Ashmead, 1906: 27.]
- Shuckardia raised to genus: Ashmead, 1905b: 381.
- Shuckardia junior synonym of Alaopone: Emery, 1910b: 14.

Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Can. Entomol. 37: 381-384 (page 381, Shuckardia as Dorylinae, Dorylini; Shuckardia as genus (raised to genus))
Ashmead, W. H. 1906. Classification of the foraging and driver ants, or Family Dorylidae, with a description of the genus Ctenopyga Ashm. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 8: 21-31 (page 27, Shuckardia as genus)
Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 150, Shuckardia as junior synonym of Alaopone [Type-species not Alaopone abeillei, unjustified subsequent designation by Ashmead, 1906:27])
Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zool. Jahrb. Abt. Syst. Geogr. Biol. Tiere 8: 685-778 (page 703, Shuckardia as subgenus of Dorylus)
Emery, C. 1910b. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dorylinae. Genera Insectorum 102: 1-34 (page 14, Shuckardia as junior synonym of Alaopone)
Wheeler, W. M. 1910b. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. (page 137, Shuckardia as subgenus of Dorylus)