Genus: Labidus

Labidus Jurine, 1807: 282. Type-species: Labidus latreillii (junior synonym of Formica coeca), by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Labidus in Dorylidae: Leach, 1815: 147 [Dorylida]; Haliday, 1836: 331; Shuckard, 1840a: 196; Smith, F. 1859b: 1; Cresson, 1887: 259.

Labidus in Dorylinae: Mayr, 1865: 16 [Dorylidae]; Forel, 1878: 365 (footnote) [Dorylidae].

Labidus in Dorylinae, Ecitonini: Emery, 1910b: 21 [Ecitini]; Forel, 1917: 240; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 654; Borgmeier, 1955: 79; Kempf, 1972a: 126; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79.

Labidus in Ecitoninae: Brown, 1973b: 166; Snelling, 1981: 392.

Labidus in Ecitoninae, Ecitonini: Bolton, 1990c: 1357; H?lldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Jaffe, 1993: 13; Bolton, 1994: 39; all subsequent authors.

Labidus as junior synonym of Eciton: Dalla Torre, 1893: 1.

Labidus as subgenus of Eciton: Emery, 1910b: 21; Forel, 1917: 240; Gallardo, 1920: 312; Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 635; Borgmeier, 1923: 41; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 654; Creighton, 1950a: 61; Smith, M.R. 1951a: 779; Kusnezov, 1956: 9.

Labidus as genus: Jurine, 1807: 282; Shuckard, 1840a: 196; Borgmeier, 1953: 4; Borgmeier, 1955: 80; Smith, M.R. 1958c: 108; all subsequent authors.

Junior synonyms of LABIDUS

Nycteresia Roger, 1861a: 21. Type-species: Formica coeca, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Nycteresia in Ponerinae: Mayr, 1862: 714 [Poneridae].

Nycteresia as junior synonym of Eciton: Mayr, 1865: 76; Dalla Torre, 1893: 1.

Nycteresia as junior synonym of Labidus: Emery, 1910b: 21; Donisthorpe, 1943f: 675; Borgmeier, 1955: 80; all subsequent authors.

Pseudodichthadia Andr?, 1885: 838. Type-species: Pseudodichthadia incerta (junior synonym of Formica coeca), by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

Pseudodichthadia in Dorylidae: Andr?, 1885: 838.

Pseudodichthadia in Dorylinae: Dalla Torre, 1893: 7.

Pseudodichthadia in Dorylinae, Ecitonini: Forel, 1893a: 163; Emery, 1895j: 765 [Ecitonii].

Pseudodichthadia as junior synonym of Eciton: Andr?, in Forel, 1899c: 160 (footnote).

Pseudodichthadia as junior synonym of Labidus: Emery, 1910b: 21; Borgmeier, 1955: 80; all subsequent authors.

Genus Labidus references

Roger, 1863b: 21, 41 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863: 424, 436 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 16 (diagnosis); Cresson, 1887: 259 (U.S.A. catalogue); Emery, 1910b: 21 (diagnosis, catalogue); Gallardo, 1920: 312 (Argentina species key); Creighton, 1950a: 62 (North America species key); Borgmeier, 1955: 80, 84 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Kempf, 1972a: 126 (Neotropical catalogue); Watkins, 1976: 8 (all species key); Smith, D.R. 1979: 1327 (North America catalogue); Watkins, 1982: 209 (Mexico species key); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 219 (catalogue); Palacio, 1999: 153 (Colombia species key).