Genus: Calomyrmex

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 9 valid species, 5 valid subspecies

Calomyrmex Emery, 1895l PDF: 772. Type-species: Formica laevissima, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Calomyrmex in Camponotinae: Emery, 1896e PDF: 188 [Camponotinae].

Calomyrmex in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 772; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 144; Forel, 1912j PDF: 89; Forel, 1917 PDF: 250.

Calomyrmex in Formicinae, Formica genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 295.

Calomyrmex in Formicinae, Camponotini: Wheeler, 1922: 700; Emery, 1925d PDF: 174; subsequent authors; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 22; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 27, 112; Ward et al., 2016 PDF: 345.

Calomyrmex as genus: all authors.

Genus Calomyrmex catalogues

Emery, 1896j PDF: 378; Emery, 1898a PDF: 227 (additions to Emery, 1896j PDF); Forel, 1914a PDF: 274; Emery, 1925d PDF: 174; Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 220 (Asia); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 108 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 10 (Australia); Bolton, 1995b: 82.

Genus Calomyrmex references

Emery, 1925d PDF: 174 (diagnosis); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 89 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 112 (synopsis); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 60 (south-western Australia species key); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 151 (brief male diagnosis); Heterick, 2021 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 PDF: 69 (Western Australia species key); Ward & Boudinot, 2021 10.3897/asp.79.e66978 PDF: 50 (male identification).

Taxon Page Images:

A colorful Calomyrmex laevissimus worker forages along a leaf in an Australian rainforest. Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia.
Image © Alex Wild. // Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Asia: China, Indonesia
    Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Australasia, Indomalaya
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Australasia, Indomalaya

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