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Genus: Megalomyrmex

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Subfamily: Myrmicinae Genus: Megalomyrmex

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

38 species

Megalomyrmex Forel, 1885a PDF: 371 Type-species: Megalomyrmex leoninus, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Type-species not Formica bituberculata, unjustified subsequent designation by Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 167.].
Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 71.
Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 769; Forel, 1899b: 57; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 139.
Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Pheidolini: Kusnezov, 1952d PDF: 10 (in key).
Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmex genus group: Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 81; in Solenopsis genus group: Bolton, 1987 PDF: 271; Brandão, 1990b PDF: 412.
Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmecini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80.
Megalomyrmex in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Forel, 1917 PDF: 243; Emery, 1922c PDF: 189; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Kusnezov, 1957b PDF: 268; Kusnezov, 1962b PDF: 160; Kusnezov, 1964 PDF: 61; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Jaffe, 1993: 10; Bolton, 1994: 106.
Genus Megalomyrmex references
Emery, 1890c PDF: 47 (all species key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 71 (catalogue); Wheeler, 1909b PDF: 236 (all species key); Emery, 1922c PDF: 189 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1925a: 32 (all species key); Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 101 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 139 (catalogue); Bolton, 1987 PDF: 285 (genus); Brandão, 1990b PDF: 411 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 249 (catalogue); Longino, 2010 PDF: 37 (Central America species key).
Genus Megalomyrmex references
Emery, 1890c PDF: 47 (all species key); Dalla Torre, 1893: 71 (catalogue); Wheeler, 1909b PDF: 236 (all species key); Emery, 1922c PDF: 189 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1925a: 32 (all species key); Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 101 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 139 (catalogue); Bolton, 1987 PDF: 285 (genus); Brandão, 1990b PDF: 411 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 249 (catalogue); Longino, 2010 PDF: 37 (Central America species key).

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