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Genus: Xymmer Santschi, 1914

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Classification:

Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Formicidae
Subfamily: Amblyoponinae
Genus: Xymmer

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Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 2 valid species

Xymmer Santschi, 1914d PDF: 311 [as subgenus of Stigmatomma]. Type-species: Stigmatomma muticum, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Xymmer in Ponerinae, Amblyoponini: Forel, 1917 PDF: 235.

Xymmer in Amblyoponinae: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 154.

Xymmer as subgenus of Stigmatomma: Santschi, 1914d PDF: 311; Forel, 1917 PDF: 235; Emery, 1919c PDF: 106; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 737.

Xymmer as subgenus of Amblyopone: Clark, 1934b PDF: 27.

Xymmer as junior synonym of Stigmatomma: Brown, 1949c PDF: 87.

Xymmer as junior synonym of Amblyopone: Brown, 1960a: 155; Bolton, 1973a PDF: 330; Smith, 1979: 1334; Ogata, 1987a PDF: 103; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 50; Tang et al., 1995: 24; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 154.

Xymmer as genus: Wheeler, 1922: 641 (in key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2012a doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0033325 PDF: 19.

[Ximmer: incorrect subsequent spelling by Emery, 1919c PDF: 106.]

Genus Xymmer catalogues

Wheeler, 1922: 758; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 454 (Afrotropical checklist).

Genus Xymmer references:

Ward & Fisher, 2016 10.1111/syen.12186 PDF: 689 (phylogeny); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 108 (brief male diagnosis).

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Uganda
    Asia: Vietnam
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Indomalaya, Malagasy
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Indomalaya, Malagasy

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