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Genus: Myrmicaria   Saunders, 1842 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

32 species, 35 subspecies

Myrmicaria Saunders, 1842 PDF: 57. Type-species: Myrmicaria brunnea, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Myrmicaria in Poneridae, Myrmicidae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 140.
Myrmicaria in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871b PDF: 330.
Myrmicaria in Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.
Myrmicaria in Myrmicinae: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 155.
Myrmicaria in Myrmicinae, Myrmicariini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 165; Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383; Emery, 1914e: 40; Arnold, 1916 PDF: 261; Forel, 1917 PDF: 242; Emery, 1922c PDF: 120; Wheeler, 1922: 661; all subsequent authors.
Myrmicaria in Solenopsidini: Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2015 PDF: 17.

Taxon Page Images:



Myrmicaria natalensis St. Lucia, KZN, South Africa.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Africa, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Gauteng, Guinea, Haut-Katanga, Ivory Coast, Kanungu, Kenya, Kongo Central, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Limpopo, Maniema, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Mpumalanga, Namibia, Nigeria, Ogooué-Maritime, Sangha-Mbaéré, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Sofala, South Africa, Southern, Southern Africa, São Tomé, Tanzania, Tshopo, Uganda, Western Africa, Western Cape, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Maluku Utara
Indomalaya Region: Arunachal Pradesh, Asia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei, India, Indonesia, Karnataka, Laguna, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Sabah, Sarawak, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
Palearctic Region: China

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Myrmicaria   Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum: 140, (download) 140 8127
Myrmicaria   Wheeler, W. M., 1922, The ants collected by the American Museum Congo Expedition., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45, pp. 39-269: 141-142, (download) 141-142 20597
Myrmicaria   Mayr, G., 1862, Myrmecologische Studien., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12, pp. 649-776: 757, (download) 757 4445
Myrmicaria   Eguchi, K., Viet, B. T. & Yamane, S., 2011, Generic synopsis of the Formicidae of Vietnam (Insecta: Hymenoptera), Part I - Myrmicinae and Pseudomyrmicinae., Zootaxa 2878, pp. 1-61: 21-22, (download) 21-22 23462


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