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Tapinoptera
| Tapinoptera | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Dolichoderinae |
| Tribe: | Tapinomini |
| Genus: | Tapinoptera Santschi, 1925 |
| Type species | |
| Tapinoma vexatum, now Technomyrmex vexatus
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Technomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- TAPINOPTERA [junior synonym of Technomyrmex]
- Tapinoptera Santschi, 1925g: 348 [as subgenus of Tapinoma]. Type-species: Tapinoma vexatum, by monotypy.
- Tapinoptera junior synonym of Tapinoma: Shattuck, 1992c: 146.
- Tapinoptera junior synonym of Technomyrmex: Bolton, 2007a: 4.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 26, Tapinoptera as junior synonym of Tapinoma)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 91, Tapinoptera as junior synonym of Tapinoma)
- Santschi, F. 1925g. Fourmis d'Espagne et autres espèces paléarctiques (Hymenopt.). EOS. Rev. Esp. Entomol. 1: 339-360 (page 348, Tapinoptera as subgenus of Tapinoma)
- Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21: 1-181 (page 146, Tapinoptera as junior synonym of Tapinoma)