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Genus: Vollenhovia

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Subfamily: Myrmicinae Genus: Vollenhovia

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2013)

Extant: 58 species, 18 subspecies

Fossil: 2 species

Vollenhovia Mayr, 1865: 21 Type-species: Vollenhovia punctatostriata, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Vollenhovia in Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.
Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865: 21 [Myrmicidae] Dalla Torre, 1893: 61.
Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 769; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 139; Wheeler, 1915i PDF: 51.
Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383.
Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Myrmecinini: Emery, 1912b PDF: 105.
Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini] Forel, 1917 PDF: 242; Emery, 1922c PDF: 163; Wheeler, 1922: 662; all subsequent authors to the following.
Vollenhovia incertae sedis in Myrmicinae: Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 81; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 81.
Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Metaponini: Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Bolton, 1994: 105.
Vollenhovia in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 59.
Genus Vollenhovia references
Mayr, 1867a PDF: 94 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 61 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 213 (diagnosis); Emery, 1922c PDF: 163 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 1026 (Malagasy catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 135, 169, 174 (Asia Aratromyrmex, Vollenhovia, Dyomorium checklists); Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 146 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 92 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 80 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Taylor, 1991db: 612 (Australia species key); Morisita, Kubota, et al. 1992: 48 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 422 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 106 (China species key); Terayama & Kinomura, 1997 PDF: 1 (Japan species key); Shattuck, 1999: 171 (Australia synopsis); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 147 (Taiwan species key).
Genus Vollenhovia references
Mayr, 1867a PDF: 94 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 61 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 213 (diagnosis); Emery, 1922c PDF: 163 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 1026 (Malagasy catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 135, 169, 174 (Asia Aratromyrmex, Vollenhovia, Dyomorium checklists); Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 146 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 92 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 80 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Taylor, 1991db: 612 (Australia species key); Morisita, Kubota, et al. 1992: 48 (Japan species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 422 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 106 (China species key); Terayama & Kinomura, 1997 PDF: 1 (Japan species key); Shattuck, 1999: 171 (Australia synopsis); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 147 (Taiwan species key); Marcus, 1953: 144 (Fiji species key).

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