Genus: Acropyga

Acropyga Roger, 1862a: 242. Type-species: Acropyga acutiventris,

     by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Acropyga in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878: 379 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 174.

Acropyga in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1886f: 212; Forel, 1893a: 165; Forel, 1895b: 107; Emery, 1895j: 771; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 143; Forel, 1912i: 88; Forel, 1917: 249.

Acropyga in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905b: 384; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 695; Emery, 1925b: 27; all subsequent authors except the two following.

Acropyga incertae sedis in Formicinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77.

Acropyga in Formicinae, Lasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.

Acropyga in Formicinae, Lasiini: Bolton, 2003: 22, 94.

Acropyga as junior synonym of Plagiolepis: Mayr, 1863: 394.

Acropyga as genus: Roger, 1862a: 242; Smith, F. 1871a: 319; Forel, 1878: 379; all subsequent authors.

Junior synonyms of ACROPYGA.

Rhizomyrma Forel, 1893g: 347 [as subgenus of Acropyga]. Type-species: Acropyga (Rhizomyrma) goeldii, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, W.M. 1911f: 172.

Taxonomic history

Rhizomyrma in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1893g: 347; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 143; Forel, 1912i: 89; Forel, 1917: 249.

Rhizomyrma in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 695.

Rhizomyrma as genus: Emery, 1906c: 182; Forel, 1912i: 89; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 143; Bruch, 1914: 227; Wheeler, W.M. & Mann, 1914: 46; Forel, 1917: 249; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 695; Kusnezov, 1956: 33; Kusnezov, 1964: 68.

Rhizomyrma as subgenus of Acropyga: Forel, 1893g: 347; Forel, 1912m: 771; Emery, 1925b: 29; subsequent authors except below; Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 2003: 95.

Rhizomyrma as junior synonym of Acropyga: Brown, 1973b: 184 [provisional]; H?lldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; LaPolla, 2004a: 16.

Atopodon Forel, 1912m: 771 [as subgenus of Acropyga]. Type-species: Acropyga (Atopodon) inezae, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, W.M. 1913a: 79.

Taxonomic history

[Atopodon also described as new by Forel, 1913k: 100.]

Atopodon in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1917: 249.

Atopodon in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 695.

Atopodon as subgenus of Rhizomyrma: Forel, 1917: 249.

Atopodon as genus: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 695.

Atopodon as subgenus of Acropyga: Forel, 1912m: 771; Forel, 1913k: 100; Emery, 1925b: 30; subsequent authors except below; Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 2003: 95.

Atopodon as junior synonym of Acropyga: Brown, 1973b: 178 [provisional]; H?lldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; LaPolla, 2004a: 16.

Malacomyrma Emery, 1922d: 109 [as subgenus of Acropyga]. Type-species: Acropyga silvestrii, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Malacomyrma in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.

Malacomyrma as subgenus of Acropyga: Emery, 1922d: 109; Emery, 1925b: 30; subsequent authors except below; Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 2003: 95.

Malacomyrma as junior synonym of Acropyga: Brown, 1973b: 182 [provisional]; H?lldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; LaPolla, 2004a: 16.

Genus Acropyga references

Roger, 1863b: 11 (catalogue); Forel, 1878: 379 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 174 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903: 332 (diagnosis); Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 928 (Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925b: 27 (diagnosis, subgenera key, catalogue); Emery, 1925b: 29, 30 (A. (Rhizomyrma, Atopodon & Malacomyrma) diagnoses, catalogues); Weber, 1944: 91 (Neotropical A. (Rhizomyrma) species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 210 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972a: 16 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, D.R. 1979: 1423 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, D.R. 1985: 107 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 5 (Australia checklist); Morisita, Kubota, et al., 1991: 14 (Japan species key); Wang, C. & Wu, 1992a: 227 (China species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1047 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 57 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 86 (Australia synopsis); Terayama, Fellowes & Zhou, 2002: 22 (diagnosis, East Asian species key); LaPolla, 2004a: 16 (diagnosis, all species revision, New World species key: 23, Old World species key: 27); LaPolla & Fisher, 2005: 601 (Afrotropical species, key); LaPolla, Schultz, et al. 2006: 197 (phylogeny); Terayama, 2009: 204 (Taiwan species key).