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Genus: Technomyrmex   Mayr, 1872 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 93 species

Fossil: 4 species

Technomyrmex Mayr, 1872 PDF: 147. Type-species: Technomyrmex strenuus, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Technomyrmex in Dolichoderinae: Forel, 1878c PDF: 380 [Dolichoderidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 166; Emery, 1895l PDF: 771; Wheeler, 1910a: 142.
Technomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Tapinomini: Emery, 1913a PDF: 42; Arnold, 1915: 147; Forel, 1917 PDF: 248; Wheeler, 1922: 690; subsequent authors except those below; then Jaffe, 1993: 9; Ward, Brady, et al. 2010: 361.
Technomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Shattuck, 1992c PDF: 153; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 92.
Genus Technomyrmex references
Forel, 1878c PDF: 380 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 166 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 301 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1913a PDF: 38 (Engramma diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1913a PDF: 42 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 147 (diagnosis, South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1922: 201, 208, 209 (Engramma, Tapinoma, Technomyrmex diagnoses); Wheeler, 1922: 202 (Engramma species key); Wheeler, 1922: 922, 925 (Afrotropical Engramma, Technomyrmex catalogues); Wheeler, 1922: 1034 (Malagasy catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 106 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 77 (Australia, New Caledonia & New Zealand checklist); Shattuck, 1992c PDF: 153 (diagnosis, review of genus); Shattuck, 1994 PDF: 156 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 402 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 118 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 360 (Saudi Arabia species key); Shattuck, 1999: 83 (Australia synopsis); Zhou, 2001A PDF: 158 (China, Guangxi species key); Bolton, 2007B PDF: 1 (all species revision; Afrotropical & West Palaearctic species key: 13; Malagasy species key: 43; East Palaearctic, Oriental, Malesian & Polynesian species key: 59; Austral species key: 108; New World species key: 119); Fernández & Guerrero, 2008 PDF: 110 (New World synopsis, key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 200 (Taiwan species key); Yoshimura & Fisher, 2011 PDF: 14 (Malagasy males); Sharaf, et al. 2011: 15 (Arabian Peninsula species key).

Taxon Page Images:



Litter-dwelling ants nest in a variety of pre-existing natural cavities. This African Technomyrmex has moved part of their colony into an old nutshell. Kibale forest, Uganda.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Ashanti, Botswana, Bundibugyo, Bungoma, Cameroon, Central, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern, Eastern Africa, Eastern Cape, Estuaire, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gauteng, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kabarole, Kakamega, Kenya, Kilifi, KwaZulu-Natal, Laikipia, Liberia, Limpopo, Manicaland, Middle Africa, Morogoro, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Nakuru, Namibia, Nigeria, North West, Ogooué-Maritime, Pemba South, Pwani, Sangha-Mbaéré, Senegal, Siaya, South, South Africa, South-West, Southern Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tshopo, Uganda, Wakiso, Western, Western Africa, Western Cape, Woleu-Ntem, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Australian Capital Territory, Bay of Plenty, Chimbu, Choiseul, East Sepik, Eastern Highlands, Guadalcanal, Lord Howe Island, Madang, Makira-Ulawa, Malaita, Maluku Utara, Morobe, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand, Nord, Norfolk Island, Northern, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua Barat, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Solomon Islands, South Australia, Southern Highlands, Tasmania, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, Victoria, Wellington, West New Britain, Western Australia, Western Highlands
Indomalaya Region: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Asia, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei, Cambodia, Central, Hunan, India, Indonesia, Jawa Barat, Karnataka, Krakatau Islands, Lampung, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Negeri Sembilan, Nepal, Okinawa, Perak, Philippines, Pulau Pinang, Sabah, Sarawak, Selangor, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi Utara, Sumatera Barat, Taiwan, Tamil Nadu, Thailand, Uva, Vietnam, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antananarivo, Antsiranana, Comoros, Fianarantsoa, Grande Comore, Madagascar, Mahajanga, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mohéli, Reunion, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: California, Florida, Georgia, North America, United States, Washington
Neotropical Region: Americas, Antigua and Barbuda, Atlántida, Cauca, Cayman Islands, Central America, Chocó, Colombia, Costa Rica, French Guiana, Honduras, Jamaica, Limón, Panama, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Saint Kitts and Nevis, San José, South America
Oceania Region: Aimeliik, Airai, Angaur, Ba, Bua, Cakaudrove, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kadavu, Kayangel, Koror, Lau, Lomaiviti, Macuata, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, Melekeok, Micronesia, Micronesia, Naitasiri, Namosi, Ngarchelong, Ngardmau, Ngatpang, Ngchesar, Ngeremlengui, Niue, Palau, Peleliu, Pitcairn, Pohnpei, Polynesia, Rewa, Samoa, Sonsorol, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuamasaga, Wallis and Futuna, Îles Australes
Palearctic Region: Al Bahah, Asir, Belgium, China, Denmark, East Flanders, Eastern Asia, Europe, Gibraltar, Hainaut, Hovedstaden, Italy, Japan, Kagoshima, Morocco, Netherlands, North Korea, Northern Africa, Northern Europe, Okayama, Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Switzerland, Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma, United Arab Emirates, Western Asia, Western Europe, Yemen, Zurich

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Technomyrmex   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 28, (download) 28 21008
Technomyrmex   Forel, A., 1891, Histoire naturelle des Hymenopteres. Deuxieme partie: Les Formicides., Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar., Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, pp. 1-231: 97, (download) 97 6734
Technomyrmex   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: 208, (download) 208 20597


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