Current View: All Antweb
Change View
Cite this page

Citing AntWeb

X

To cite this page, please use the following:

· For print: . Accessed

· For web:


Genus: Allomerus   Mayr, 1878 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

8 species

Allomerus Mayr, 1878 PDF: 873. Type-species: Allomerus decemarticulatus, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 158. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Allomerus in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 78.
Allomerus in Myrmicinae, Myrmicini: Forel, 1895b PDF: 125; Emery, 1895l PDF: 769.
Allomerus in Myrmicinae, Stenammini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383.
Allomerus in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmex genus group: Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 81; in Solenopsis genus group: Bolton, 1987 PDF: 271.
Allomerus in Myrmicinae, Megalomyrmecini: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80.
Allomerus in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Emery, 1914e: 41 [subtribe Monomoriini]; Forel, 1917 PDF: 243; Emery, 1922c PDF: 188; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Jaffe, 1993: 10; Bolton, 1994: 106.
Allomerus in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2015 PDF: 17.
Genus Allomerus references
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 78 (catalogue); Emery, 1922c PDF: 188 (diagnosis, catalogue); Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 111 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 18 (catalogue); Bolton, 1987 PDF: 282 (review of genus); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 324 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1047 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 61 (catalogue); Fernández, 2007A PDF: 163 (all species revision, key).

Taxon Page Images:



The stem-hugging galleries of Allomerus octoarticulatus ants are made of fungal hyphae growing through a matrix of detritus. Jatun Sacha reserve, Napo, Ecuador.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

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

Neotropical Region: Amapá, Amazonas, Americas, Bolivia, Bolívar, Brazil, Cusco, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Loreto, Madre de Dios, Peru, Santa Cruz, South America, Venezuela


See something amiss? Send us an email.
Enlarge Map