Genus: Daceton

Current Valid Name:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)

Extant: 2 valid species

Daceton Perty, 1833: 136. Type-species: Formica armigera, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Daceton in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 160.

Daceton in Myrmicidae, Cryptoceridae: Smith, 1853 PDF: 226; Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.

Daceton in Cryptoceridae, Dacetini: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384 [Dacetonini].

Daceton in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865 PDF: 26 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 149 [Myrmicinae].

Daceton in Myrmicinae, Dacetini, Dacetiti: Brown, 1952j PDF: 10 (footnote); Brown, 1954b PDF: 465; Brown & Wilson, 1959b PDF: 281; Brandão, 1991 PDF: 391.

Daceton in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 164; Forel, 1892d PDF: 344; Forel, 1895b PDF: 136; Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Emery, 1896e PDF: 180; Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 141; Emery, 1914e PDF: 42; Forel, 1917 PDF: 246; Wheeler, 1922: 666; Emery, 1924f PDF: 316; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 637; Brown, 1948e PDF: 102; Bolton, 1995b: 26; Bolton, 1999 PDF: 1653; Shattuck, 2000: 31; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 54, 187.

Daceton in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward et al., 2015 10.1111/syen.12090 PDF: 77.

Daceton as genus: all authors.

[Dacetum: unjustified emendation by Agassiz, 1846 PDF: 115; Schulz, 1906 PDF: 155.]

[Note: Dacetum was treated as a junior synonym of Daceton by Brown, 1973b PDF: 179; Bolton, 1995b: 26; Bolton, 2003 PDF: 187, but is best regarded as an unjustified emendation.]

Genus Daceton catalogues

Roger, 1863b PDF: 40; Mayr, 1863a PDF: 406; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 149; Emery, 1924f PDF: 316; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 94; Bolton, 1995b: 168.

Genus Daceton references

Mayr, 1865 PDF: 26 (diagnosis); Emery, 1924f PDF: 316 (diagnosis); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1049 (census); Gronenberg, 1996: 2021 (mandible morphology); Bolton, 1999 PDF: 1653 (diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Bolton, 2000: 17 (diagnosis, species synopsis); Azorsa & Sosa-Calvo, 2008 PDF: 27 (all species key); Baccaro et al., 2015 10.5281/zenodo.32912 PDF: 224 (genus in Brazil); Cantone, 2017 PDF: 199 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 851 (Colombia species key).

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Distribution:

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Americas: Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Neotropical
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Neotropical

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name	Status	Publication	Pages	ModsID	GoogleMaps
Daceton		Azorsa, F. & Sosa-Calvo, J., 2008, Description of a remarkable new species of ant in the genus Daceton Perty (Formicidae: Dacetini) from South America., Zootaxa 1749, pp. 27-38: 29, (download)	29	21510
Daceton		Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum, pp. -1--1: 160, (download)	160	8127

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Genus: Daceton Perty, 1833

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