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Genus: Myrmoteras

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Subfamily: Formicinae Genus: Myrmoteras

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2010)

Myrmoteras Forel, 1893f: 607. Type-species: Myrmoteras binghamii, by monotypy.

Taxonomic history

[Myrmoteras also described as new by Forel, 1894c: 418.]

Myrmoteras in Camponotinae: Forel, 1894c: 420.

Myrmoteras in Camponotinae, Myrmoteratini: Emery, 1895j: 772; Wheeler, W.M. 1910g: 143; Forel, 1917: 248.

Myrmoteras in Gesomyrmicinae, Myrmoteratini: Ashmead, 1905b: 384.

Myrmoteras in Formicinae, Myrmoteratini: Wheeler, W.M. 1922a: 694; Emery, 1925b: 36; all subsequent authors except the following.

Myrmoteras in Formicinae, Oecophylla genus group: Agosti, 1991: 295.

 

Subgenera of MYRMOTERAS include the nominal plus the following.

 

Subgenus MYRMOTERAS (MYAGROTERAS)

Myagroteras Moffett, 1985bb: 31 [as subgenus of Myrmoteras]. Type-species: Myrmoteras donisthorpei, by original designation.

Genus Myrmoteras references: see above.

 


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Myrmoteras indicum
Myrmoteras iriodum
Myrmoteras my03
Myrmoteras undet

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