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Genus: Myrmicaria   Saunders, 1842 

Classification:

Current Valid Name:



Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 39 valid species, 32 valid subspecies

Myrmicaria Saunders, 1842 PDF: 57 [as subgenus of Myrmica]. Type-species: Myrmicaria brunnea, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Myrmicaria in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 140.
Myrmicaria in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871b PDF: 330.
Myrmicaria in Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.
Myrmicaria as genus: Smith, 1858a PDF: 140; all subsequent authors.
Myrmicaria as senior synonym of Heptacondylus: Smith, 1865a PDF: 73 (in text); Mayr, 1866b PDF: 905; Mayr, 1867a PDF: 111; Smith, 1871a PDF: 330; Mayr, 1872 PDF: 154; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 155; Emery, 1922c PDF: 121; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1973a PDF: 349; Bolton, 1995b: 37; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 243.
[Note: Mayr, 1863a PDF: 436, writes that Myrmicaria is “vielleicht Heptacondylus”.]
Myrmicaria as senior synonym of Physatta: Smith, 1865a PDF: 73 (in text); Mayr, 1866b PDF: 905; Mayr, 1867a PDF: 111; Smith, 1871a PDF: 330; Mayr, 1872 PDF: 154; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 155; Bingham, 1903 PDF: 117; Emery, 1922c PDF: 121; subsequent authors; Bolton, 1973a PDF: 349; Bolton, 1995b: 37; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 243.
[Myrmecaria: incorrect subsequent spelling by Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383.]
[Megimicaria: incorrect subsequent spelling by Santschi, 1924c PDF: 107.]
Genus Myrmicaria catalogues
Mayr, 1863a PDF: 422, 436 (Heptacondylus, Myrmicaria); Roger, 1863b PDF: 27, 28 (Heptacondylus, Myrmicaria); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 155; Emery, 1922c PDF: 121; Wheeler, 1922: 823 (Afrotropical); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 123 (Asia); Bolton, 1995b: 285; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 330 (Afrotropical checklist).
Genus Myrmicaria references
Smith, 1858a PDF: 140, 141, 171 (Myrmicaria, Heptacondylus, Physatta diagnoses); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 24 (Heptacondylus diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 111 (diagnosis); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 118 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1914e PDF: 36 (diagnosis (in key)); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 261 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Emery, 1922c PDF: 121 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 141 (diagnosis); Santschi, 1925c PDF: 171 (Afrotropical species, diagnosis, key); Karavaiev, 1935a PDF: 84 (Oriental & Malesian species key); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b PDF: 53 (larvae, review & synthesis); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051 (census); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 68, 242 (diagnosis, synopsis); Bakhtiar et al., 2009 PDF: 249 (Southeast Asia species groups); Eguchi et al., 2011 PDF: 21 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 328 (diagnosis); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 218 (brief male diagnosis); Zettel et al., 2018 PDF: 622 (Philippines species key).

Taxon Page Images:


Myrmicaria natalensis St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa.
Image © Alex Wild.

Myrmicaria nigra Photo © Philip Herbst, collected by Peter Slingsby at Cape Columbine, West Coast, RSA



Overview:

Myrmicaria brunnea worker and queen from  Kerala,India

// Distribution

Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Asia: Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Myrmicaria   Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum: 140, (download) 140 8127
Myrmicaria   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 141-142, (download) 141-142 20597
Myrmicaria   Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 757, (download) 757 4445
Myrmicaria   Eguchi, K., Viet, B. T. & Yamane, S., 2011, Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part I - Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmicinae., Zootaxa 2878, pp. 1-61: 21-22, (download) 21-22 23462


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