Mycetosoritis
Wheeler, 1907
valid
masculine
Mycetosoritis
Wheeler, 1907d:
714
[as subgenus of Atta]
Type-species:
Atta hartmanni (obsolete combination of Mycetosoritis hartmanni), by monotypy.
- Mycetosoritis in Myrmicinae, Attini: Emery, 1913c: 251; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 343; all subsequent authors.
- Mycetosoritis as subgenus of Atta: Wheeler, 1907d: 670; Wheeler, 1910a: 141.
- Mycetosoritis as subgenus of Cyphomyrmex: Emery, 1913c: 251; Forel, 1917: 247; Emery, 1924f: 343; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 663; Kusnezov, 1949d: 444; Kusnezov, 1956a: 23.
- Mycetosoritis as subgenus of Trachymyrmex: Wheeler, 1922: 669.
- Mycetosoritis as genus: Creighton, 1950a: 317; Kempf, 1972b: 146.
Obsolete classifications
Genus Mycetosoritis references
Kempf, 1972b: 146 (catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1410 (North America catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 269 (catalogue); Cantone, 2017: 214 (brief male diagnosis)
Gender
Sosa-Calvo et al., 2017: 8: set gender to masculine: "Because there is thus no indication of gender in the original description of Mycetosoritis, Section 30.1.4.2 of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature applies, requiring the use of the masculine gender for genus-group names with endings of ambiguous gender for which the author did not indicate the gender either explicitly or via a clear adjectival species-group name."
Citations
- 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.
- 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
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- 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. 1913c. Études sur les Myrmicinae. [V-VII.]. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 57:250-262. PDF
- Emery, C. 1924f ("1922"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Myrmicinae. [concl.]. Genera Insectorum 174C:207-397. 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
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Kusnezov, N. 1949d. El género Cyphomyrmex (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) en la Argentina. Acta Zoologica Lilloana 8:427-456. PDF
- Kusnezov, N. 1956a. Claves para la identificación de las hormigas de la fauna argentina. Idia 104-105:1-56. PDF
- 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.
- Sosa-Calvo, J.; Ješovnik, A.; Vasconcelos, H. L.; Bacci, M., Jr.; Schultz, T. R. 2017. Rediscovery of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant "Mycetosoritis" asper Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for taxonomy, phylogeny, and the evolution of agriculture in ants. PLoS ONE 12 (5):29 pp. e0176498. 10.1371/journal.pone.0176498 PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1907d. The fungus-growing ants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:669-807. 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.
Extant: 2 valid species
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