Thaumatomyrmii

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Thaumatomyrmii
Scientific classification (junior synonym of Ponerini)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Ponerinae
Tribe: Thaumatomyrmii
Emery, 1901
Type genus
Thaumatomyrmex

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

Nomenclature

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

  • THAUMATOMYRMECINI [junior synonym of Ponerini]
    • Thaumatomyrmii Emery, 1901a: 36. Type-genus: Thaumatomyrmex Mayr, 1887: 530.

Taxonomic History

  • Thaumatomyrmecini as tribe of Ponerinae: Emery, 1901a: 36 [Thaumatomyrmii]; Emery, 1911d: 48 [Thaumatomyrmicini]; Forel, 1917: 236 [Thaumatomyrmicini]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 637 [Thaumatomyrmicini]; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1976b: 45 [Thaumatomyrmecini]; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 256; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 78; Bolton, 1994: 164; Bolton, 2003: 44, 171.
  • Thaumatomyrmecini as junior synonym of Ponerini: Schmidt, C.A. & Shattuck, 2014: 46, 53.

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