Acanthostichii

The tribe Acanthostichini belongs to the subfamily Cerapachyinae. For a list of genera contained within this tribe see Acanthostichini genera, for species see Acanthostichini species.

Tribe ACANTHOSTICHINI Acanthostichii Emery, 1901a: 34. Type-genus: Acanthostichus. Taxonomic history Acanthostichini as tribe of Dorylinae: Emery, 1901a: 34 [Acanthostichii]; Emery, 1904a: 116 [Acanthostichii]. Acanthostichini as subfamily of Dorylidae: Ashmead, 1905b: 382 [Acanthostichinae]; Ashmead, 1906: 28 [Acanthostichinae]. Acanthostichini as tribe of Ponerinae: Emery, 1911d: 12; Forel, 1917: 239; Gallardo, 1918b: 6; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 619; Brown, 1975: 39; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10. Acanthostichini as tribe of Cerapachyinae: Wheeler, W.M. 1902d: 184; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 137 [subtribe of Cerapachysii]; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 640; Wheeler, G.C. & Wheeler, J. 1985: 256; Bolton, 1990a: 67; Bolton, 1990c: 1357; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 19; Bolton, 2003: 33, 137. Genus of Acanthostichini: Acanthostichus.

Tribe and genus Acanthostichus references Dalla Torre, 1893: 16 (catalogue); Emery, 1911d: 12 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911d: 13 (A. (Ctenopyga) diagnosis, catalogue); Gallardo, 1918b: 8 (Argentina species key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 640 (genera, key); Wheeler, W.M. 1934g: 162 (species key); Kusnezov, 1962a: 125 (species key); Kempf, 1972a: 10 (Neotropical catalogue); Brown, 1975: 39 (diagnosis, review of tribe and genus); Brown, 1975: 42 (review of Ctenopyga); Bolton, 1990a: 58 (abdominal morphology); Brandão, 1991: 322 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a: 1047 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 54 (catalogue); Mackay, 1996: 129 (diagnosis, all species revision, key);  Mackay &  Mackay, 2002: 35 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Bolton, 2003: 33, 137 (diagnosis, synopsis).