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Willowsiella
| Willowsiella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Formicidae |
| Subfamily: | Myrmicinae |
| Tribe: | Crematogastrini |
| Genus: | Willowsiella Wheeler, W.M., 1934 |
| Type species | |
| Willowsiella dispar, now Stereomyrmex dispar
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This genus is not in use as it is currently considered to be a junior synonym of Stereomyrmex.
Nomenclature
The following information is derived from Barry Bolton's Online Catalogue of the Ants of the World.
- WILLOWSIELLA [junior synonym of Stereomyrmex]
- Willowsiella Wheeler, W.M. 1934a: 174. Type-species: Willowsiella dispar, by original designation.
- Willowsiella junior synonym of Stereomyrmex: Bolton, 2003: 252, 273.
References
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp. (page 105, Willowsiella in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini)
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and Classification of Formicidae. Mem. Am. Entomol. Inst. 71: 370pp (page 252, 273, Willowsiella as junior synonym of Stereomyrmex)
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp. (page 80, Willowsiella in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943h. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [concl.]. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 11(10): 721-737 (page 736, Willowsiella in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp. (page 16, Willowsiella in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Taylor, R. W. 1991a [1990]. Notes on the ant genera Romblonella and Willowsiella, with comments on their affinities, and the first descriptions of Australian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Psyche (Camb.) 97: 281-296 (page 294, Willowsiella in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1934a. Formicidae of the Templeton Crocker Expedition, 1933. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 21: 173-181 (page 174, 176, Willowsiella as genus; Willowsiella in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini)
- Wheeler, W. M. 1935a. Two new genera of myrmicine ants from Papua and the Philippines. Proc. N. Engl. Zool. Club 15: 1-9 (page 6, Willowsiella in Myrmicinae, Meranoplini (in key))