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Genus: Temnothorax

Name Status: Valid Name

Taxonomic Hierarchy:

Subfamily: Myrmicinae Genus: Temnothorax

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 346 species, 47 subspecies

Fossil: 7 species

Temnothorax Mayr, 1861 PDF: 68 Type-species: Myrmica recedens, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Temnothorax in Myrmicidae, Myrmicidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.

Temnothorax in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1861 PDF: 68 [Myrmicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 459 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 122.

Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Forel, 1917 PDF: 245; Emery, 1924f PDF: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731.

Temnothorax in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105.

Temnothorax as subgenus of Leptothorax: Forel, 1892j PDF: 315; Dalla Torre, 1893: 122; Ruzsky, 1905b: 607; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 139; Emery, 1915e PDF: 24; Forel, 1915d: 27; Emery, 1916a PDF: 176; Forel, 1917 PDF: 245; Bondroit, 1918 PDF: 117; Wheeler, 1922: 679; Emery, 1924f PDF: 259; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 731.

Temnothorax as junior synonym of Leptothorax: Forel, 1890b PDF: lxxii; Baroni Urbani, 1971c PDF: 96; Brown, 1973b: 185 [provisional]; Bolton, 1982: 319; Bolton, 1994: 105.

Temnothorax as genus: Bernard, 1967a PDF: 185; Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 543; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79; Atanasov & Dlussky, 1992: 125; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 270.

Genus Temnothorax references

See under LEPTOTHORAX for pre-2003 references. Bolton, 2003 PDF: 270 (genus diagnosis). Radchenko, 2004 PDF: 131 (Eastern Palaearctic species key); Radchenko, 2005b: 193 (North Korea species key); Seifert, 2007: 120 (North and Central Europe species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 181 (Taiwan species key); Zhou, et al. 2010: 9 (China species key).

Genus Temnothorax references