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Genus: Mesostruma Brown, 1948

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Classification:

Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Myrmicinae
Genus: Mesostruma

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 9 valid species

Mesostruma Brown, 1948e PDF: 118. Type-species: Strumigenys turneri, by original designation. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Mesostruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini, Epopostrumiti: Brown, 1954b PDF: 465; Brown & Wilson, 1959b PDF: 281.

Mesostruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Brown, 1948e PDF: 118; Bolton, 1995b: 35; Bolton, 1999 PDF: 1680; Shattuck, 2000: 47; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 54, 187.

Mesostruma in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward et al., 2015 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF: 77.

Mesostruma as junior synonym of Colobostruma: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994 PDF: 15; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007 PDF: 94.

Mesostruma as genus: Brown, 1948e PDF: 118; Brown, 1952j PDF: 9; Taylor, 1973 PDF: 25; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11; Bolton, 1995b: 35; Bolton, 1999 PDF: 1680; Shattuck, 2000: 47; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 54, 187; Heterick, 2009 PDF: 157.

Genus Mesostruma catalogues

Taylor & Brown, 1985: 69; Taylor, 1987a PDF: 40; Bolton, 1995b: 252.

Genus Mesostruma references

Brown, 1952j PDF: 9 (diagnosis, all species key); Taylor, 1973 PDF: 27 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 143 (synopsis); Bolton, 1999 PDF: 1680 (morphology, diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Shattuck, 2000: 47 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 210 (brief male diagnosis); Heterick, 2021 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.86.2021.001-245 PDF: 182 (Western Australia species key).

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Oceania: Australia
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Australasia
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Australasia

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