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Genus: Solenopsis   Westwood, 1840 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 195 species, 22 subspecies

Fossil: 8 species

Solenopsis Westwood, 1840b PDF: 86. Type-species: Solenopsis mandibularis (junior synonym of Atta geminata), by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki HOL

Taxonomic history

Solenopsis in Poneridae, Attidae: Smith, 1858a PDF: 177.
Solenopsis in Attidae: Smith, 1860a: 74; Smith, 1861b PDF: 48.
Solenopsis in Myrmicidae: Smith, 1871b PDF: 333; Cresson, 1887 PDF: 262.
Solenopsis in Myrmicidae, Pheidolidae: Emery, 1877b PDF: 81.
Solenopsis in Myrmicinae: Mayr, 1865 PDF: 24 [Myrmicidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879a: 464 [Myrmicidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 75.
Solenopsis in Myrmicinae, Solenopsis genus group: Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 81; Bolton, 1987 PDF: 271.
Solenopsis in Myrmicinae, Solenopsidini: Forel, 1893b PDF: 164; Forel, 1895b PDF: 130; Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Forel, 1899B: 79; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 383; Wheeler, 1910a: 140; Emery, 1914e: 41; Arnold, 1916 PDF: 242; Forel, 1917 PDF: 243; Emery, 1922c PDF: 195; Wheeler, 1922: 663; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 232; Smith, 1979: 1384; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 80; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 16; Jaffe, 1993: 10; Bolton, 1994: 106.
Genus Solenopsis references
Smith, 1858a PDF: 177 (diagnosis); Roger, 1863b: 32 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a PDF: 453 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865 PDF: 24 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a PDF: 109 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1870b PDF: 996 (all species key); André, 1883b: 387 (Europe & Algeria species key); Cresson, 1887 PDF: 262 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 75 (catalogue); Emery, 1896g PDF: 82 (New World species key); Forel, 1903a PDF: 689 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 158 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1909a PDF: 29 (Palaearctic species key); Emery, 1916a PDF: 165 (Italy species key); Arnold, 1916 PDF: 242 (diagnosis); Emery, 1922c PDF: 195 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 163, 877, 1028 (diagnosis, Afrotropical, Malagasy catalogues); Emery, 1924f: 218 (Oligomyrmex (Octella) diagnosis, catalogue); Creighton, 1930b PDF: 42 (subgenera key); Creighton, 1930b PDF: 45 (Solenopsis (Solenopsis) species key); Creighton, 1930b PDF: 106 (Solenopsis (Euophthalma) species key); Cole, 1942 PDF: 361 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Bernard, 1950a PDF: 5 (France species key); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 228 (North America species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 167 (Asia checklist); Wilson, 1952b PDF: 50 (South America Solenopsis saevissima complex, key); Kusnezov, 1953d PDF: 347 (Synsolenopsis species key); Gregg, 1963: 370 (U.S.A., Colorado species key); Snelling, 1963 PDF: 1 (U.S.A.Solenopsis geminata group species); Ettershank, 1966 PDF: 134 (diagnosis, review of genus, checklist); Bernard, 1967a PDF: 170 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Kusnezov, 1969 PDF: 37 (Bisolenopsis species key); Buren, 1972 PDF: 1 (Solenopsis geminata group, partial revision); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 232 (Neotropical catalogue); Snelling & Hunt, 1975 PDF: 81 (Chile species key); Kutter, 1977c: 99 (Switzerland species key); Arnol'di & Dlussky, 1978: 539 (former European U.S.S.R. species key); Collingwood, 1978 PDF: 82 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Bernard, 1978a: 573 (France species key); Smith, 1979: 1385 (North America catalogue); Allred, 1982: 443 (U.S.A., Utah species key); Gösswald, 1985: 302 (Germany species key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 87 (Australia catalogue); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1986g PDF: 50 (U.S.A., Nevada species key); Taylor, 1987a PDF: 72 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b PDF: 273 (Balkans species key); Bolton, 1987 PDF: 285 (synonymy notes); Thompson & Johnson, 1989 PDF: 697 (U.S.A., Florida species key); Dlussky, Soyunov & Zabelin, 1990 PDF: 240 (Turkmenistan species key); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 378 (Neotropical catalogue); Trager, 1991 PDF: 141 (Solenopsis geminata group revision, key); Morisita, Kubota, et al. 1992: 41 (Japan species key); Arakelian, 1994 PDF: 48 (Armenia species key); Dlussky & Radchenko, 1994a PDF: 102 (Central Palaearctic species key); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 386 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 70 (China species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996 PDF: 358 (Saudi Arabia species key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 18 (Portugal species key); Shattuck, 1999: 165 (Australia synopsis); Taber, 2000: 234 (U.S.A. Solenopsis geminata group, key); Snelling, 2001: 522 (Puerto Rico Solenopsis fugax group, key); Mackay & MacKay, 2002 PDF: 196 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Sharaf, Taylor & Klingenberg, 2009 PDF: 51 (Egypt species key); Terayama, 2009 PDF: 157 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009 PDF: 176 (south-western Australia species key); Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011 PDF: 478 (Arabia species key); Sarnat & Economo, 2012 PDF: 122 (Fiji species key); Sharaf & Aldawood, 2012 PDF: 17 (Egypt & Saudi Arabia key); Pacheco & Mackay, 2013 PDF : 1 (New World partial revision, key)

Taxon Page Images:



An underground trail of thief ants, Solenopsis molesta. Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Afrotropical, Australasia, Indomalaya, Malagasy, Nearctic, Neotropical, Oceania, Palearctic bioregions.

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Africa, Eastern Cape, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gauteng, Guinea, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Liberia, Lindi, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Nakuru, Saint Helena, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Southern Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Western Africa, Western Cape, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Australasia Region: Australia, Australia and New Zealand, Makira-Ulawa, Maluku, Maluku Utara, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand, Oceania, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, South Australia, Sud, Tasmania, Vanuatu, Victoria, Western Australia
Indomalaya Region: Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Asia, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, Goa, India, Indonesia, Jawa Barat, Krakatau Islands, Laos, Malaysia, Nicobar Island, Philippines, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Yunnan
Malagasy Region: Anjouan, Antsiranana, Comoros, Fianarantsoa, Grande Comore, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mohéli, Reunion, Rodrigues, Saint-Denis, Seychelles, Toamasina, Toliara
Nearctic Region: Alabama, Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, Baja California, British Columbia, California, Canada, Chihuahua, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hidalgo, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North America, North Carolina, Nuevo León, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, United States, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Amazonas, Americas, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aragua, Argentina, Aruba, Atlántida, Bahamas, Bahia, Baja Verapaz, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Biobío, Boaco, Bocas del Toro, Bolivia, Bolívar, Boquerón, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Buenos Aires, Cajamarca, Canindeyú, Caribbean, Cartago, Catamarca, Cauca, Cayman Islands, Cayo, Ceará, Central, Central America, Chaco, Chiapas, Chile, Chiriquí, Chontales, Cienfuegos, Cochabamba, Coclé, Colombia, Colonia, Colón, Comayagua, Coquimbo, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Cuba, Córdoba, Darién, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Duarte, Ecuador, El Progreso, El Salvador, Entre Ríos, Estelí, Formosa, Francisco Morazán, French Guiana, Galapagos Islands, Galápagos, Gracias a Dios, Granada, Granma, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guanacaste, Guantánamo, Guatemala, Guatemala, Guerrero, Guyana, Haiti, Heredia, Holguín, Honduras, Huehuetenango, Huila, Islas de la Bahía, Itapúa, Izabal, Jalisco, Jamaica, Jinotega, Jujuy, La Paz, Lempira, Limón, Madriz, Magdalena, Managua, Martinique, María Trinidad Sánchez, Masaya, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mendoza, Mexico, Minas Gerais, Miranda, Misiones, Misiones, Montserrat, Morelos, Nacional, Nayarit, Neuquén, Nicaragua, Nueva Segovia, Oaxaca, Olancho, Panama, Paraguay, Paraná, Pará, Pernambuco, Peru, Petén, Pichincha, Presidente Hayes, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Quintana Roo, Región Metropolitana, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, Risaralda, Río Negro, Sacatepéquez, Saint Ann, Saint James, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Cristóbal, San José, San José de Ocoa, San Salvador, Santa Bárbara, Santa Catarina, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe, Santa Rosa, Santiago de Cuba, Santiago del Estero, Sinaloa, Sololá, Sonsonate, South America, Suchitepéquez, Suriname, São Paulo, Tamaulipas, Trelawny, Trinidad and Tobago, Tucumán, Turks and Caicos Islands, United States Virgin Islands, Uruguay, Usulután, Valle del Cauca, Vargas, Venezuela, Veracruz, Yucatán, Zacapa
Oceania Region: American Samoa, Angaur, Ba, Cakaudrove, Cook Islands, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawaii, Kadavu, Kayangel, Kiribati, Koror, Lau, Lomaiviti, Marshall Islands, Melanesia, Micronesia, Micronesia, Naitasiri, Namosi, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Peleliu, Pohnpei, Polynesia, Ra, Rewa, Samoa, Serua, Tonga, Tuamasaga, Wallis and Futuna
Palearctic Region: Aargau, Afghanistan, Al Bahah, Albania, Algeria, Alicante, Andorra, Ar Riyad, Armenia, Austria, Balearic Islands, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Channel Islands, China, Corsica, Crete, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dolnośląskie, Eastern Asia, Eastern Europe, Egypt, Europe, France, Georgia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hainaut, Hungary, Hyōgo, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kairouan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Libya, Limburg, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Namur, Netherlands, North Korea, Northern Africa, Occitanie, Oman, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Slovenia, Smolyan, Sofia, Souk Ahras, South Korea, Southern Europe, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vidin, Walloon Brabant, Western Asia, Western Europe, Yemen, Zurich

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Forel, A., 1892, Nouvelles espèces de formicides de Madagascar. (Récoltées par M. Sikora.), Annales de la Societe Entomologique de Belgique 36, pp. 516-535: -1, (download) -1 3940
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Smith, F., 1858, Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae., London: British Museum: 177-178, (download) 177-178 8127
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   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: 28-29, (download) 28-29 23462
Solenopsis   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: -1, (download) -1 21008
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Parvimyrma   Eguchi, K. & Bui, T. V., 2007, Parvimyrma gen. nov. belonging to the Solenopsis genus group Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Solenopsidini)., Zootaxa 1461, pp. 39-47: 39, (download) 39 21368
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Ward, P. S., 2005, A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 936, pp. 1-68: 36, (download) 36 21008
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   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: 163-164, (download) 163-164 20597
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367
Solenopsis   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 37, (download) 37 21367


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