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Spelaeomyrmex
| Spelaeomyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Spelaeomyrmex Wheeler, W.M., 1922 |
| Type species | |
| Spelaeomyrmex urichi, now Carebara urichi
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Carebara.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- SPELAEOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Carebara]
- Spelaeomyrmex Wheeler, W.M. 1922c: 9. Type-species: Spelaeomyrmex urichi, by original designation.
- Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Erebomyrma: Wilson, 1962: 63.
- Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Oligomyrmex: Bolton, 1994: 106.
- Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Carebara: Fernández, 2004a: 194.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 106, Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 215, Spelaeomyrmex as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943h. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [concl.]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 721-737 (page 727, Spelaeomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1944b. Notes arising out of Mr. W. D. Hincks's review of Mr. Donisthorpe's "A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae". Entomol. Mon. Mag. 80: 59 (page 59, Spelaeomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidologitonini)
- Fernández, F. 2004a. The American species of the myrmicine ant genus Carebara Westwood (Hymentoptera: Formicidae). Caldasia 26(1): 191-238 (page 194, Spelaeomyrmex junior synonym of Carebara)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922e. The ants of Trinidad. American Museum Novitates 45: 1-16 (page 9, 11, Spelaeomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidologitonini)
- Wilson, E. O. 1962a. The Trinidad cave ant Erebomyrma (=Spelaeomyrmex) urichi (Wheeler), with a comment on cavernicolous ants in general. Psyche (Camb.) 69: 62-72 (page 63, Spelaeomyrmex as junior synonym of Oligomyrmex)