Current View: All Antweb
Cite this page

Citing AntWeb

X

To cite this page, please use the following:

· For print: . Accessed

· For web:


Genus: Protomognathus   Wheeler, 1905 

   (Not a Valid Name)
Classification:

Current Valid Name:

Temnothorax

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Protomognathus Wheeler, 1905a PDF: 3 [as subgenus of Tomognathus]. Type-species: Tomognathus americanus, by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Protomognathus in Myrmicinae, Leptothoracini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 688.
Protomognathus in Myrmicinae, Formicoxenini: Bolton, 1994: 105.
Protomognathus as junior synonym of Harpagoxenus: Emery, 1924f: 265; all subsequent authors to the following.
Protomognathus as genus: Cover, in Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 65; Bolton, 1995b: 369.
Protomognathus as junior synonym of Temnothorax: Ward, Brady, Fisher & Schultz, 2015 PDF: 15.

Taxon Page Images:



A mixed colony of Protomognathus americanus (the acorn slave-raiding ant, dark brown) and its host, Temnothorax curvispinosus. Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Image © Alex Wild.


See something amiss? Send us an email.