Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2021)
Extant: 45 valid species
Taxonomic history
Megalomyrmex in
Myrmicinae,
Solenopsidini:
Emery, 1914e PDF: 41 [subtribe
Monomoriini];
Forel, 1917 PDF: 243;
Emery, 1922c PDF: 189;
Wheeler, 1922: 663;
Kusnezov, 1957b PDF: 268;
Kusnezov, 1962b PDF: 160;
Kusnezov, 1964 PDF: 61;
Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16;
Jaffe, 1993: 10;
Bolton, 1994: 106.
Emery, 1890c PDF: 47 (all species key);
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 71 (catalogue);
Wheeler, 1909b PDF: 236 (all species key);
Emery, 1922c PDF: 189 (diagnosis, catalogue);
Wheeler, 1925a: 32 (all species key);
Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 101 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist);
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 139 (catalogue);
Bolton, 1987 PDF: 285 (genus);
Brandão, 1990b PDF: 411 (diagnosis, all species revision, key);
Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census);
Bolton, 1995b: 249 (catalogue);
Longino, 2010 PDF: 37 (Central America species key);
Boudinot et al., 2013 PDF: 1 (male diagnosis, Central America species keys);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 208 (brief male diagnosis);
Fernández & Serna, 2019 PDF: 805 (Colombia species key)
Taxon Page Images:
Colonies of the social parasite
Megalomyrmex adamsae are small, consisting of only a handful of ants. They raise their brood in small chambers built within the fungus gardens of their host species. Here the queen is visible in the middle of the nest chamber. Panama; captive colony at the University of Texas.
Image ©
Alex Wild.
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Americas: Argentina,
Belize,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Ecuador,
French Guiana,
Guatemala,
Guyana,
Honduras,
Mexico,
Nicaragua,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Suriname,
Venezuela Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Neotropical Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Neotropical
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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Mexico
United States
India
Madagascar
Canada
Brazil
China
Greece
Spain
Australia