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Genus: Myrmecorhynchus   André, 1896 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 3 species

Fossil: 1 species

Myrmecorhynchus André, 1896d PDF: 253. Type-species: Myrmecorhynchus emeryi, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Myrmecorhynchus in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Wheeler, 1910a: 144.
Myrmecorhynchus in Camponotinae, Oecophyllini: Forel, 1912j PDF: 89; Forel, 1917 PDF: 250.
Myrmecorhynchus in Camponotinae, Myrmecorhynchini: Wheeler, 1917f PDF: 19.
Myrmecorhynchus in Formicinae, Myrmecorhynchini: Emery, 1925d PDF: 35; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b PDF: 258.
Myrmecorhynchus in Formicinae, Melophorini: Wheeler, 1922: 694; Wheeler, 1935c PDF: 71; Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016 PDF: 347.
Myrmecorhynchus in Formicinae, Formica genus group: Agosti, 1991 PDF: 295.
Myrmecorhynchus in Formicinae, Myrmecorhynchini: Bolton, 2003 PDF: 24, 109.
Genus Myrmecorhynchus references
Wheeler, 1917f PDF: 15 (diagnosis, review of genus); Emery, 1925d PDF: 35 (diagnosis, catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 125 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 47 (Australia checklist); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1051 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 275 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 97 (Australia synopsis); Shattuck, 2015 PDF: 283 (diagnosis, review of genus, species key)

Taxon Page Images:



Myrmecorhynchus sp. Wilson's Promontory National Park, Victoria, Australia.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Australasia bioregion.

Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, New Zealand, Oceania, Otago, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


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