Genus: Myrmicaria

Current Valid Name:

Extant: 39 valid species, 32 valid 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, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.

Genus Myrmicaria references

Cantone, 2017 PDF: 218 (brief male diagnosis); Zettel et al., 2018 PDF: 622 (Philippines key to species)

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

Myrmicaria nigra Photo © Philip Herbst, collected by Peter Slingsby at Cape Columbine, West Coast, RSA

Myrmicaria brunnea worker and queen from Kerala,India

// Distribution

  Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists):
    Africa: Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
    Asia: Bangladesh, Borneo, Brunei, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam
  Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya
  Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records):
    Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya

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