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Genus: Brachymyrmex   Mayr, 1868 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

44 species, 17 subspecies

Brachymyrmex Mayr, 1868b PDF: 163. Type-species: Brachymyrmex patagonicus, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Brachymyrmex in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 375 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 174.
Brachymyrmex in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 165; Forel, 1895b PDF: 106; Emery, 1895l PDF: 771; Forel, 1899B: 123; Wheeler, 1910a: 143.
Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384.
Brachymyrmex in Camponotinae, Myrmelachistini: Forel, 1912j PDF: 89.
Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Dimorphomyrmecini: Emery, 1925d PDF: 40 [subtribe Brachymyrmecini]; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628.
Brachymyrmex incertae sedis in Formicinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77.
Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Myrmelachistini: Wheeler, 1922: 697; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016 PDF: 348.
Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 296.
Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Brachymyrmecini: Wheeler, 1929a PDF: 12; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 37; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 258; Jaffe, 1993: 13; Bolton, 1994: 50.
Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 23, 101.
Genus Brachymyrmex references
Forel, 1878c PDF: 375 (diagnosis); André, 1882b: 214 (Europe & Algeria species); Cresson, 1887 PDF: 255 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 174 (catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 1036 (Malagasy catalogue); Santschi, 1923b PDF: 652 (diagnosis, all species key); Emery, 1925d PDF: 40 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 43 (Brachymyrmex (Bryscha) diagnosis, catalogue); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 356 (North America species, review); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 279 (diagnosis); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 37 (Neotropical catalogue); Alayo, 1974: 26 (Cuba species key); Smith, 1979: 1424 (North America catalogue); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 331 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 81 (catalogue); Quiran, Martínez & Bachmann, 2004 PDF: 275 (diagnosis); Ortiz & Fernández, 2014 PDF: 13 (review of species with tumuliform metathoracic spiracles, key); Wilson, Smith-Herron & Cook, 2016 10.3897/JHR.50.8697 PDF: 81 (male genitalia).

Taxon Page Images:



Brachymyrmex patagonicus is a South American rover ant that is spreading rapidly across the southern and western United States. Here, workers of this tiny species are dwarfed by a small drop of honey. Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Nearctic, Neotropical bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Cabo Verde, Eastern Africa, Mozambique, Tanga, Tanzania
Australasia Region: Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, Oceania, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antsiranana, Comoros, Fianarantsoa, Grande Comore, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mohéli, Reunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Baja California, Baja California Sur, British Columbia, California, Canada, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Brunswick, New Jersey, New Mexico, North America, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puebla, Sonora, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., West Virginia
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Alta Verapaz, Americas, Araucanía, Argentina, Atlántida, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Biobío, Bocas del Toro, Bolivia, Boquerón, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Buenos Aires, Canindeyú, Caribbean, Cartago, Catamarca, Ceará, Central, Central America, Chiapas, Chile, Colombia, Colón, Comayagua, Cordillera, Costa Rica, Cuba, Córdoba, Darién, Demerara-Mahaica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Progreso, Francisco Morazán, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Galápagos, Gracias a Dios, Granma, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guanacaste, Guantánamo, Guatemala, Guerrero, Guyana, Haiti, Hato Mayor, Heredia, Honduras, Itapúa, Izabal, Jalisco, Jamaica, Jinotega, Jujuy, Lempira, Limón, Los Lagos, Los Ríos, Magdalena, Martinique, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Maule, Mexico, Minas Gerais, Misiones, Misiones, Morelos, Nayarit, Nicaragua, Oaxaca, Ocotepeque, Panama, Paraguarí, Paraguay, Paraná, Peru, Petén, Pinar del Río, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Región Metropolitana, Rio Grande do Sul, Saint Andrew, Saint James, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San José, San Martín, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, Sinaloa, South America, Suchitepéquez, Suriname, São Paulo, Trelawny, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Valparaíso, Venezuela, Veracruz, Westmoreland, Zacapa
Oceania Region: Guam, Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, Northern Mariana Islands, Polynesia, Samoa
Palearctic Region: Europe, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Western Europe, Zurich

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Brachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 27, (download) 27 21367
Brachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 27, (download) 27 21367
Brachymyrmex   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 28, (download) 28 21008


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