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Genus: Microdaceton   Santschi, 1913 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

4 species

Microdaceton Santschi, 1913g PDF: 478. Type-species: Microdaceton exornatum, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

[Microdaceton also described as new by Santschi, 1914e: 33.].
Microdaceton in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Emery, 1914e: 42; Forel, 1917 PDF: 246; Arnold, 1917 PDF: 383; Wheeler, 1922: 667; Emery, 1924f: 317; Brown, 1948e: 102; all subsequent authors.
Microdaceton in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2015 PDF: 17.
Genus Microdaceton references
Arnold, 1917 PDF: 383 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 917 (catalogue); Emery, 1924f: 317 (diagnosis, catalogue); Bolton, 1983 PDF: 401 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 258 (catalogue); Bolton, 1999 PDF: 1675 (morphology, diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Bolton, 2000: 26 (diagnosis, all species revision, key).

Taxon Page Images:



Microdaceton sp. Kibale forest, Uganda.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

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

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Bundibugyo, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Africa, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kabarole, Kakamega, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Middle Africa, Morogoro, Mozambique, Ogooué-Maritime, Sangha-Mbaéré, South, South Africa, South-West, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Western, Western Africa, Woleu-Ntem, Zambia, Zimbabwe


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