Myrmecocystus Wesmael, 1838 valid masculine
Myrmecocystus Wesmael, 1838: 770 Type-species: Myrmecocystus mexicanus, by monotypy.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Myrmecocystus catalogues

Roger, 1863b: 12; Mayr, 1863a: 431; Cresson, 1887: 255 (U.S.A.); Dalla Torre, 1893: 216; Emery, 1925d: 238; Smith, 1951c: 854 (North America); Smith, 1979: 1445 (North America); Bolton, 1995b: 274.

Genus Myrmecocystus references

Forel, 1878c: 372 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1912e: 173 (all species key); Emery, 1925d: 238 (diagnosis); Cole, 1942: 385 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Creighton, 1950a: 440 (Nearctic species key); Gregg, 1963: 643 (U.S.A., Colorado species key); Snelling, 1969b: 6 (Myrmecocystus melliger complex, key); Snelling, 1976: 22, 25, 27, 93, 115 (diagnosis, all species revision, keys); Snelling, 1982b: 77, 83 (supplements to Snelling, 1976 keys); Allred, 1982: 451 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g: 69 (U.S.A., Nevada species key); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 344 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Cantone, 2017: 161 (brief male diagnosis); van Elst et al., 2021: 1 (species phylogeny, divergence dating, ancestral state reconstruction); Sankey-Alamilla et al., 2024: 77 (Mexico phylogeny).

Citations

Extant: 30 valid species (5 synonyms, 1 unidentifiable, 15 obsolete combinations), 0 valid subspecies (3 synonyms, 51 obsolete combinations)