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Tricytarus
| Tricytarus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947 |
| Type species | |
| Tricytarus parviumgulatus, now Meranoplus parviumgulatus | |
This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Meranoplus.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- TRICYTARUS [junior synonym of Meranoplus]
- Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947d: 187. Type-species: Tricytarus parviumgulatus, by original designation.
- Tricytarus unidenifiable taxon. Male-based genus, description inadequate. Type-material not present in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, U.S.A., nor in The Natural History Museum, London, U.K., presumed lost: Bolton, 2003: 254.
- Tricytarus junior synonym of Meranoplus: Boudinot, 2014: 96.
Unless otherwise noted the text for the remainder of this section is reported from the publication that includes the original description.
Male. Mandibles very short, sharply pointed. Antennae 13-jointed; maxillary palpi 5-jointed; labial palpi 3-jointed; ocelli situated on occiput of head. Mayrian furrows well marked; epinotum armed with two tubercles. Petiole long and narrow. No spurs to tibiae present; claws very small. One discoidal cell, one cubital cell, and closed radial cell present.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Tricytarus incertae sedis in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini?)
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. (page 422, Tricytarus incertae sedis in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 254, Tricytarus as unrecognisable taxon; a male-based genus, description inadequate. Type-material not present in California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, U.S.A., nor in The Natural History Museum, London, U.K.; presumed lost.)
- Boudinot, B. 2014. Rediscovery of Tricytarus Donisthorpe, 1947, a new genus-level synonym of Meranoplus F. Smith, 1853 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Myrmecological News 20:95-100.
- Donisthorpe, H. 1947e. Some new ants from New Guinea. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(14): 183-197. (page 187, Tricytarus as genus)
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 16, Tricytarus incertae sedis in Myrmicinae)
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 111: 255-264 (page 259, Tricytarus incertae sedis in Formicidae (incomprehensible entry))