Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 39 valid species, 32 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Myrmicaria in
Myrmicinae,
Myrmicariini:
Forel, 1893b PDF: 165;
Emery, 1895l PDF: 770;
Emery, 1896e PDF: 179 [Myrmicarii];
Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383;
Emery, 1914e PDF: 40;
Arnold, 1916 PDF: 261;
Forel, 1917 PDF: 242;
Emery, 1922c PDF: 120;
Wheeler, 1922: 661; subsequent authors;
Bolton, 1995b: 37;
Bolton, 2003 PDF: 68, 243.
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.
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.
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).
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)
Myrmicaria |
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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
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Myrmicaria |
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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
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Myrmicaria |
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Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 757, (download) |
757 |
4445
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Myrmicaria |
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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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