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Genus: Calomyrmex   Mayr, 1861 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

9 species, 5 subspecies

Colobopsis Mayr, 1861 PDF: 38. Type-species: Formica laevissima, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Calomyrmex in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 772; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384; Wheeler, 1910a: 144; Forel, 1912j PDF: 89; Forel, 1917 PDF: 250.
Calomyrmex in Formicinae, Camponotini: Wheeler, 1922: 700; Emery, 1925d PDF: 174; all subsequent authors except the following.
Calomyrmex in Formicinae, Formica genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 295.
Genus Calomyrmex references
Emery, 1896j: 378 (catalogue); Emery, 1898a PDF: 227 (additions to 1896a catalogue); Emery, 1925d PDF: 174 (diagnosis, catalogue); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 220 (Asia checklist); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 108 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 10 (Australia checklist); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 82 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 89 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 112 (synopsis); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 60 (south-western Australia species key).

Taxon Page Images:



A colorful Calomyrmex laevissimus worker forages along a leaf in an Australian rainforest. Mungkan Kandju National Park, Queensland, Australia.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Australasia, Indomalaya bioregions.

Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Central, Eastern Highlands, Gulf, Maluku, Maluku Utara, Milne Bay, Morobe, New South Wales, Northern, Northern Territory, Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Queensland, South Australia, Western, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Indonesia, South-Eastern Asia
Oceania Region: Melanesia
Palearctic Region: China


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