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Genus: Trachymyrmex   Forel, 1893 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

Extant: 47 species, 1 subspecies

Fossil: 1 species

Trachymyrmex Forel, 1893h PDF: 600 [as subgenus of Atta]. Type-species: Atta septentrionalis, by subsequent designation of Wheeler, 1911g PDF: 174. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Trachymyrmex in Cryptoceridae, Attinae: Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 384.
Trachymyrmex in Myrmicinae, Attini: Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Emery, 1913c PDF: 251; Forel, 1917 PDF: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Emery, 1924f: 344; all subsequent authors.
Trachymyrmex as subgenus of Atta: Forel, 1893h PDF: 600 Emery, 1895l PDF: 770; Forel, 1893h PDF: 600; Forel, 1899B: 30; Wheeler, 1907d PDF: 670; Wheeler, 1910a: 141.
Trachymyrmex as subgenus of Cyphomyrmex: Emery, 1913c PDF: 251; Emery, 1924f: 344; Donisthorpe, 1943h: 733.
Trachymyrmex as subgenus of Acromyrmex: Forel, 1917 PDF: 247.
Trachymyrmex as genus: Gallardo, 1916c PDF: 242; Gallardo, 1916e PDF: 318; Wheeler, 1916c PDF: 11; Wheeler, 1922: 669; Borgmeier, 1927c: 128; Borgmeier, 1950b PDF: 384; Kusnezov, 1964 PDF: 63; Kempf, 1972b PDF: 252.
Genus Trachymyrmex references
Wheeler, 1911i PDF: 248 (all species key); Emery, 1924f: 344 (diagnosis, catalogue); Creighton, 1950a PDF: 320 (North America species key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 252 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1411 (North America catalogue); Brandão, 1991 PDF: 382 (catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 105 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1053 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 420 (catalogue); Mackay & MacKay, 2002 PDF: 38 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2002: 672 (diagnosis, Trachymyrmex opulentus group key); Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2005 PDF: 274 (Trachymyrmex iheringi group, key); Brandão& Mayhé-Nunes, 2007: 72 (species group phylogeny). Mayhé-Nunes & Brandão, 2007 PDF: 4 (Trachymyrmex jamaicensis group, key); Rabeling, Cover, Johnson & Mueller, 2007 PDF: 4 (North America species, key).

Taxon Page Images:



A Trachymyrmex turrifex worker removes soil from an excavation deep in the nest. Austin, Texas, USA.
Image © Alex Wild.

Distribution:

(based on species list records)   Genus is native to: Nearctic, Neotropical bioregions.

Nearctic Region: Alabama, Arizona, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North America, North Carolina, Sonora, Tennessee, Texas, United States
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Amambay, Amazonas, Americas, Antigua and Barbuda, Aragua, Argentina, Atlántida, Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Buenos Aires, Canindeyú, Caribbean, Cartago, Central America, Chiapas, Cibao Norte, Colombia, Colón, Comayagua, Cortés, Costa Caribe Norte, Costa Caribe Sur, Costa Rica, Cuba, Cusco, Córdoba, Darién, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Exuma, Francisco Morazán, French Guiana, Goiás, Gracias a Dios, Guadeloupe, Guanacaste, Guatemala, Guerrero, Guyana, Haiti, Heredia, Honduras, Islas de la Bahía, Izabal, Jamaica, Jinotega, Limón, Madre de Dios, Magdalena, Matagalpa, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mexico, Misiones, Napo, Nicaragua, Oaxaca, Olancho, Ouest, Panama, Paraguay, Pará, Peru, Petén, Puerto Rico, Puntarenas, Rio Grande do Sul, Saint Elizabeth, Saint James, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San José, San Salvador, Santa Fe, Santiago de Cuba, South America, Suriname, São Paulo, Tamaulipas, Trelawny, Trinidad and Tobago, Tucumán, Uruguay, Venezuela, Veracruz, Zacapa

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Trachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367
Trachymyrmex   Mayhé-Nunes, A. J. & Brandão, C. R. F., 2007, Revisionary studies on the attine ant genus Trachymyrmex Forel. Part 3: The Jamaicensis group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1444, pp. 1-21: 3, (download) 3 21824
Trachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367
Trachymyrmex   Rabeling, Ch., Cover, S. P., Johnson, R. A. & Mueller, U. G., 2007, A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1664, pp. 1-53: 4-6, (download) 4-6 21361
Trachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367
Trachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367
Trachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367
Trachymyrmex   Rabeling, Ch., Cover, S. P., Johnson, R. A. & Mueller, U. G., 2007, A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1664, pp. 1-53: 2, (download) 2 21361
Trachymyrmex   Rabeling, Ch., Cover, S. P., Johnson, R. A. & Mueller, U. G., 2007, A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1664, pp. 1-53: 25-27, (download) 25-27 21361
Trachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367
Trachymyrmex   Wild, A. L., 2007, A catalogue of the ants of Paraguay (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1622, pp. 1-55: 38, (download) 38 21367


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