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Teleutomyrmex
| Teleutomyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Teleutomyrmex Kutter, 1950 |
| Type species | |
| Teleutomyrmex schneideri, now Tetramorium inquilinum
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Tetramorium.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- TELEUTOMYRMEX [junior synonym of Tetramorium]
- Teleutomyrmex Kutter, 1950: 82. Type-species: Teleutomyrmex schneideri, by original designation.
- Teleutomyrmex junior synonym of Tetramorium: Ward et al., 2014: 15.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 226, Teleutomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini)
- Kutter, H. 1950a. Über eine neue, extrem parasitische Ameise. 1. Mitteilung. Mitt. Schweiz. Entomol. Ges. 23: 81-94 (page 82, Teleutomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Tetramoriini [subtribe Teleutomyrmini])
- Sanetra, M.; Buschinger, A. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among social parasites and their hosts in the ant tribe Tetramoriini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Eur. J. Entomol. 97: 95-117 (page 95, phylogeny)
- Ward, P.S., Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L., Schultz, T.R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40: 61–81 (doi:10.1111/syen.12090).