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Extant: 39 valid species, 32 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
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
// DistributionScientific 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 |