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Genus: Nomamyrmex   Borgmeier, 1936 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

2 species

Nomamyrmex Borgmeier, 1936b PDF: 55 [as subgenus of Eciton]. Type-species: Eciton crassicornis, by original designation. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Nomamyrmex in Dorylinae, Ecitonini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 674; Borgmeier, 1955 PDF: 79; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 164; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 79.
Nomamyrmex in Ecitoninae: Brown, 1973b PDF: 166; Snelling, 1981: 392.
Nomamyrmex in Ecitoninae, Ecitonini: Bolton, 1990c PDF: 1357; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 12; Jaffe, 1993: 13; Bolton, 1994: 39.
Nomamyrmex as subgenus of Eciton: Borgmeier, 1936b PDF: 55; Kusnezov, 1956a PDF: 9.
Nomamyrmex as genus: Borgmeier, 1953 PDF: 4; Borgmeier, 1955 PDF: 135; Smith, 1958c: 108; all subsequent authors except the entry above.
Nomamyrmex in Dorylinae: Brady, Fisher, Schultz & Ward, 2014 PDF: 5.
Genus Nomamyrmex references
Borgmeier, 1955 PDF: 135 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 164 (catalogue); Watkins, 1976 PDF: 7 (all species key); Watkins, 1977a PDF: 207 (all species key); Smith, 1979: 1329 (North America catalogue); Watkins, 1982 PDF: 215 (Mexico species key); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 360 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 292 (catalogue); Palacio, 1999: 161 (Colombia species key); Borowiec, 2016 10.3897/zookeys.608.9427 PDF: 185 (worker, male diagnosis)

Taxon Page Images:



Nomamyrmex esenbeckii is a master predator of other ants. Here, a worker carries off a Pheidole soldier she has paralyzed, transporting the prey in typical army ant style- slung under her body. Monte Verde, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Nearctic, Neotropical bioregions.

Nearctic Region: Chihuahua, North America, Sonora, Texas, United States
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Amazonas, Americas, Aragua, Argentina, Atlántida, Bolivia, Brazil, Canindeyú, Caribbean, Central America, Chiapas, Coclé, Colombia, Colón, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Goiás, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guyana, Heredia, Honduras, Madre de Dios, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mexico, Minas Gerais, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Panama, Paraguay, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Peru, Puntarenas, San José, Santa Cruz, South America, Suchitepéquez, Suriname, São Paulo, Trinidad and Tobago, Trujillo, Tunapuna-Piarco, Venezuela


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