Aphomomyrmex
Emery, 1899
valid
masculine
Aphomomyrmex
Emery, 1899d:
493
Type-species:
Aphomomyrmex afer, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g: 159.
- Aphomomyrmex in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Wheeler, 1910a: 143.
- Aphomomyrmex in Formicinae, Dimorphomyrmecini: Emery, 1925d: 44 [subtribe Brachymyrmecini]; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 624.
- Aphomomyrmex incertae sedis in Formicinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77.
- Aphomomyrmex in Formicinae, Myrmelachistini: Forel, 1912j: 89; Forel, 1917: 249; Arnold, 1920a: 552; Wheeler, 1922: 697; Bolton, 1973a: 362; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.
- Aphomomyrmex in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.
- Aphomomyrmex in Formicinae, Brachymyrmecini: Wheeler, 1929a: 12; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 258; Bolton, 1994: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 20.
- Aphomomyrmex in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384; Bolton, 2003: 23, 101; Ward et al., 2016: 348.
- Aphomomyrmex as genus: all authors.
- [Aphomyrmex: incorrect subsequent spelling by Ashmead, 1905b: 111.]
- [Note: Aphomyrmex incorrectly given as junior synonym of Pseudaphomomyrmex by Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.]
Genus Aphomomyrmex catalogues
Wheeler, 1922: 940 (Afrotropical); Emery, 1925d: 44; Bolton, 1995b: 74; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 200 (checklist).
Genus Aphomomyrmex references
Arnold, 1920a: 552 (South Africa); Emery, 1925d: 44 (diagnosis); Snelling, 1979b: 3 (review of genus); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 199 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017: 148 (brief male diagnosis).
Citations
- Agosti, D. 1991. Revision of the oriental ant genus Cladomyrma, with an outline of the higher classification of the Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 16:293-310. PDF
- Arnold, G. 1920a. A monograph of the Formicidae of South Africa. Part IV. Myrmicinae. Annals of the South African Museum 14:403-578. PDF
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905b. New Hymenoptera from the Philippines. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 29:107-119. PDF
- Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1973a. The ant genera of West Africa: a synonymic synopsis with keys (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 27:317-368. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp.
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
- Emery, C. 1899d. Fourmis d'Afrique. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 43:459-504. PDF
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
- Fisher, B. L.; Bolton, B. 2016. Ants of the world. Ants of Africa and Madagascar. A guide to the genera. Berkeley: University of California Press, ix + 503 pp.
- Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:59-92. PDF
- Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253. PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- Snelling, R. R. 1979b. Aphomomyrmex and a related new genus of arboreal African ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 316:1-8. PDF
- Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 111:255-264. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
- Wheeler, W. M. 1929a. The identity of the ant genera Gesomyrmex Mayr and Dimorphomyrmex Ernest André. Psyche (Cambridge) 36:1-12. PDF
Extant: 1 valid species
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