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Wheelerimyrmex
| Wheelerimyrmex | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Solenopsidini |
| Genus: | Wheelerimyrmex Mann, 1922 |
| Type species | |
| Megalomyrmex silvestrii
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Megalomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- WHEELERIMYRMEX [junior synonym of Megalomyrmex]
- Wheelerimyrmex Mann, 1922: 29 [as subgenus of Megalomyrmex]. Type-species: Megalomyrmex silvestrii, by original designation.
- Wheelerimyrmex junior synonym of Megalomyrmex: Ettershank, 1966: 101; Brandão, 1990: 415.
References
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 211, Wheelerimyrmex as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
- Brandão, C. R. F. 1990b. Systematic revision of the Neotropical ant genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae), with the description of thirteen new species. Arq. Zool. (São Paulo) 31: 411-481 (page 415, Wheelerimyrmex as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
- Ettershank, G. 1966. A generic revision of the world Myrmicinae related to Solenopsis and Pheidologeton (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Aust. J. Zool. 14: 73-171 (page 101, Wheelerimyrmex as junior synonym of Megalomyrmex)
- Mann, W. M. 1922. Ants from Honduras and Guatemala. Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus. 61: 1-54 (page 29, Wheelerimyrmex as subgenus of Megalomyrmex)