Eurhopalothrix

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Eurhopalothrix Brown & Kempf, 1961 valid feminine

Eurhopalothrix Brown & Kempf, 1961: 44 Type-species: Rhopalothrix bolaui (obsolete combination of Eurhopalothrix bolaui), by original designation.

[Note. All Eurhopalothrix taxa with combination in Basiceros, sensu Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 90-93; taxonomy documented in Bolton, 2003 is retained here.].
[Eurhopalothrix Brown & Kempf, 1960: 202; unavailable name, proposed without designation of type-species.].
Eurhopalothrix in Myrmicinae, Basicerotini: Brown & Kempf, 1961: 44; all subsequent authors except the entries below; Bolton, 1998a: 67; Bolton, 2003: 184.
Eurhopalothrix in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 31; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 88 (as junior synonym of Basiceros).
Eurhopalothrix in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.

Genus Eurhopalothrix references

Brown & Kempf, 1960: 202, 245 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Snelling, 1968c: 3 (supplement to Brown & Kempf, 1960 key); Taylor, 1968c: 334 (Indo-Australian species key); Taylor, 1970a: 51 (supplement to Taylor, 1968b key); Kempf, 1972b: 107 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1409 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 64 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 26 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Taylor, 1990c: 401 (Old World species key); Brandão, 1991: 343 (Neotropical catalogue); Bolton, 1995a: 1049 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 189 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 135 (Australia synopsis); Ketterl et al., 2004: 48 (Neotropical species key); Mezger & Pfeiffer, 2010: 135 (Eurhopalothrix platisquama group key); Longino, 2013a: 106, 107 (New World species synopsis, key); Cantone, 2017: 201 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019: 853 (Colombia species key)

Citations

Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 1994. First description of fossil Dacetini ants with a critical analysis of the current classification of the tribe (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VI: Dacetini). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 198:1-65. PDF
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Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 2007. The ant tribe Dacetini: limits and constituent genera, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 99:1-191. PDF
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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. PDF
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Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Bolton, B. 1998A. Monophyly of the dacetonine tribe-group and its component tribes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Bulletin of the Natural History Museum. Entomology Series Ser. 67:65-78.
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Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
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Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
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Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. PDF
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Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1961 ("1960"). The type species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix. Psyche (Cambridge) 67:44. PDF
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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
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Fernández, F.; Serna, F. J. 2019. Subfamilia Myrmicinae. Pp. 791-888 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
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Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
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Ketterl, J.; Verhaagh, M.; Dietz, B. H. 2004. Eurhopalothrix depressa sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from southern Brazil with a key to the Neotropical taxa of the genus. Studies on the Neotropical Fauna and Environment 39:45-48. PDF
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Longino, J. T. 2013a. A review of the Central American and Caribbean species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf, 1961 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to New World species. Zootaxa 3693:101-151. PDF
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Mezger, D.; Pfeiffer, M. 2010. Eurhopalothrix elke, a new species from Borneo, and a key to the species of the E. platisquama group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 13:133-139. PDF
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Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
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Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209.
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Snelling, R. R. 1968c. A new species of Eurhopalothrix from El Salvador (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 154:1-4. PDF
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Taylor, R. W. 1968c. Notes on the Indo-Australian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 16:333-348. PDF
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Taylor, R. W. 1970a. Notes on some Australian and Melanesian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 9:49-52. PDF
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Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
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Taylor, R. W. 1990c. New Asian ants of the tribe Basicerotini, with an on-line computer interactive key to the twenty-six known Indo-Australian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4:397-425. PDF
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Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
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Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81. 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF
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Extant: 53 valid species

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