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Genus: Sphinctomyrmex

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Cerapachyinae Genus: Sphinctomyrmex

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

Sphinctomyrmex Mayr, 1866b: 895. Type-species: Sphinctomyrmex stali, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Sphinctomyrmex in Dorylidae: Mayr, 1866b: 895; Forel, 1878: 365 (footnote).

Sphinctomyrmex Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 16.

Sphinctomyrmex in Dorylinae, Cerapachyini: Emery, 1895j: 765; Emery, 1901a: 34.

Sphinctomyrmex in Dorylinae, Dorylini: Ashmead, 1905b: 381; Ashmead, 1906: 27.

Sphinctomyrmex in Ponerinae, Cerapachyini: Forel, 1893a: 162; Forel, 1895b: 116; Forel, 1900d: 328; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 137; Emery, 1911d: 6; Forel, 1917: 239; Brown, 1975: 18; Snelling, 1981: 389; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; H�lldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10.

Sphinctomyrmex in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, 1902d: 185; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 638; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 727; Kempf, 1972a: 241; Bolton, 1990a: 67; Bolton, 1990c: 1357; Jaffe, 1993: 9; Bolton, 1994: 19; all subsequent authors.

Junior synonyms of SPHINCTOMYRMEX

Eusphinctus Emery, 1893a: cclxxv. Type-species: Eusphinctus furcatus, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Eusphinctus in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 639; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 645.

Eusphinctus as subgenus of Sphinctomyrmex: Emery, 1895k: 456; Forel, 1900d: 328; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 137; Emery, 1911d: 7; Forel, 1917: 239.

Eusphinctus as genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 219; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 639.

Eusphinctus as junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex: Brown, 1973b: 180 [provisional]; Brown, 1975: 31; all subsequent authors.

Nothosphinctus Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 219 [as subgenus of Eusphinctus]. Type-species: Sphinctomyrmex froggatti, by subsequent designation of Donisthorpe, 1943f: 675.

Taxonomic history

Nothosphinctus as subgenus of Eusphinctus: Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 219; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 639.

Nothosphinctus as junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Brown, 1975: 31; all subsequent authors.

Zasphinctus Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 219 [as subgenus of Eusphinctus]. Type-species: Sphinctomyrmex turneri, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Zasphinctus as subgenus of Eusphinctus: Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 219; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 639.

Zasphinctus as junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex: Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Brown, 1975: 31; all subsequent authors.

Aethiopopone Santschi, 1930a: 49. Type-species: Sphinctomyrmex rufiventris, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Aethiopopone in Cerapachyinae, Cerapachyini: Donisthorpe, 1943f: 620.

Aethiopopone as junior synonym of Sphinctomyrmex: Bolton, 1973a: 341; Brown, 1975: 31; all subsequent authors.

Genus Sphinctomyrmex references

Dalla Torre, 1893: 16 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903: 25 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1911d: 6 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1911d: 7 (S. (Eusphinctus) diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, W.M. 1918a: 224 (Australia Eusphinctus species key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 639 (Eusphinctus subgenera key); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 755 (Afrotropical catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 21 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972a: 241 (Neotropical catalogue); Brown, 1975: 31 (diagnosis, key); Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 49 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 73 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 392 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 62 (Australia synopsis).