Acropyga
Roger, 1862
valid
feminine
- Acropyga in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c: 379 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 174.
- Acropyga in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1886h: 212; Forel, 1893b: 165; Forel, 1895b: 107; Emery, 1895l: 771; Wheeler, 1910a: 143; Forel, 1912j: 88; Forel, 1917: 249.
- Acropyga in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384; Wheeler, 1922: 695; Emery, 1925d: 27; Ward et al., 2016: 348.
- Acropyga incertae sedis in Formicinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77.
- Acropyga in Formicinae, Lasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.
- Acropyga in Formicinae, Lasiini: Bolton, 2003: 22, 94.
- Acropyga as junior synonym of Plagiolepis: Mayr, 1863a: 394.
- Acropyga as genus: Roger, 1862a: 242; Smith, 1871b: 319; Forel, 1878c: 379; all subsequent authors.
Junior synonyms
- Atopodon Forel, 1912
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Malacomyrma
Emery, 1922
Obsolete classification(s): Acropyga (Malacomyrma)
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Rhizomyrma
Forel, 1893
Obsolete classification(s): Acropyga (Rhizomyrma)
Genus Acropyga references
Roger, 1863b: 11 (catalogue); Forel, 1878c: 379 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 174 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903: 332 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 928 (Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925d: 27 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1925d: 29, 30 (Rhizomyrma)); Weber, 1944b: 91 (Neotropical Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 210 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972b: 16 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1423 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 107 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 5 (Australia checklist); Morisita et al., 1991: 14 (Japan species key); Wang & Wu, 1992a: 227 (China species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1047 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 57 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 86 (Australia synopsis); Terayama et al., 2002: 22 (diagnosis, East Asian species key); LaPolla, 2004a: 16 (diagnosis, all species revision, New World species key: 23, Old World species key: 27); LaPolla & Fisher, 2005: 601 (Afrotropical species, key); LaPolla et al., 2006: 197 (phylogeny); Terayama, 2009: 204 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 60 (south-western Australia species key); Blaimer et al., 2016: 20 (phylogenomics); Cantone, 2017: 146 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019: 731 (Colombia species key).
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Bingham, C. T. 1903. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Hymenoptera, Vol. II. Ants and Cuckoo-wasps. London: Taylor and Francis, 506 pp.
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Blaimer, B. B.; LaPolla, J. S.; Branstetter, M. G.; Lloyd, M. W.; Brady, S. G. 2016. Phylogenomics, biogeography and diversification of obligate mealybug-tending ants in the genus Acropyga. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102:20-29.
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Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
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Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056.
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