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Genus: Acropyga

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Subfamily: Formicinae Genus: Acropyga

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 41 species

Fossil: 1 species

Acropyga Roger, 1862a PDF: 242 Type-species: Acropyga acutiventris, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Acropyga in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 379 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 174.
Acropyga in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384; Wheeler, 1922: 695; Emery, 1925d PDF: 27; all subsequent authors except the two following.
Acropyga in Formicinae, Lasius genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 296.
Acropyga as junior synonym of Plagiolepis: Mayr, 1863a PDF: 394.
Acropyga as genus: Roger, 1862a PDF: 242; Smith, 1871b PDF: 319; Forel, 1878c PDF: 379; all subsequent authors.
Genus Acropyga references
Roger, 1863b PDF: 11 (catalogue); Forel, 1878c PDF: 379 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 174 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 332 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 928 (Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 27 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 29, 30 ({? A}(Rhizomyrma{? , Atopodon & Malacomyrma}){? diagnoses, catalogues}); Weber, 1944b PDF: 91 (Neotropical Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 210 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 16 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1423 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 107 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 5 (Australia checklist); Morisita, Kubota, et al., 1991: 14 (Japan species key); Wang & Wu, 1992a PDF: 227 (China species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1047 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 57 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 86 (Australia synopsis); Terayama, Fellowes & Zhou, 2002 PDF: 22 (diagnosis, East Asian species key); LaPolla, 2004 PDF: 16 (diagnosis, all species revision, New World species key: 23, Old World species key: 27); LaPolla & Fisher, 2005 PDF: 601 (Afrotropical species, key); LaPolla, Schultz, et al. 2006: 197 (phylogeny); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 204 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 60 (south-western Australia species key).
Genus Acropyga references
Roger, 1863b PDF: 11 (catalogue); Forel, 1878c PDF: 379 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 174 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 332 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 928 (Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 27 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 29, 30 ({? A}(Rhizomyrma{? , Atopodon & Malacomyrma}){? diagnoses, catalogues}); Weber, 1944b PDF: 91 (Neotropical Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 210 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 16 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1423 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 107 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 5 (Australia checklist); Morisita, Kubota, et al., 1991: 14 (Japan species key); Wang & Wu, 1992a PDF: 227 (China species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1047 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 57 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 86 (Australia synopsis); Terayama, Fellowes & Zhou, 2002 PDF: 22 (diagnosis, East Asian species key); LaPolla, 2004 PDF: 16 (diagnosis, all species revision, New World species key: 23, Old World species key: 27); LaPolla & Fisher, 2005 PDF: 601 (Afrotropical species, key); LaPolla, Schultz, et al. 2006: 197 (phylogeny); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 204 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 60 (south-western Australia species key).

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