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Genus: Centromyrmex   Mayr, 1866 


Classification:

Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2017)

15 species, 2 subspecies

Centromyrmex Mayr, 1866b PDF: 894. Type-species: Centromyrmex bohemanni (junior synonym of Ponera brachycola), by monotypy. AntCat AntWiki

Taxonomic history

Centromyrmex in Poneridae: Mayr, 1866b PDF: 894.
Centromyrmex in Ponerinae: Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 15.
Centromyrmex in Ponerinae, Ponerini: Forel, 1895b PDF: 111; Forel, 1899B: 2; Emery, 1901b PDF: 35; Forel, 1900f PDF: 303; Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382; Wheeler, 1910a: 135; Emery, 1911e PDF: 57 [subtribe Centromyrmicini]; Arnold, 1915: 38; Forel, 1917 PDF: 237; Wheeler, 1922: 646; all subsequent authors except the following.
Centromyrmex incertae sedis in Ponerinae: Jaffe, 1993: 8 (in error).
Genus Centromyrmex references
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 15 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903 PDF: 94 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e PDF: 57 (diagnosis, catalogue); Arnold, 1915: 38 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 762, 766, 779 (Afrotropical Centromyrmex, Glyphopone, Leptopone, Promyopias catalogues); Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 52, 76 (Asia Centromyrmex, Typhloteras checklists); Brown, 1963: 9 (review of genus); Kempf, 1967b PDF: 404 (Neotropical species revision, key); Kempf, 1972b PDF: 75 (Neotropical catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 139 (catalogue); Bolton, 2003 PDF: 160 (synopsis); Fernández, 2008A PDF: 138 (Neotropical species key); Bolton & Fisher, 2008C PDF: 4 (diagnosis, Afrotropical species revision, key); Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 PDF: 164 (diagnosis, synoptic description, distribution, ecology and behavior, phylogenetic and taxonomic considerations)

Taxon Page Images:



Centromyrmex gigas, Aragua, Venezuela.
Image © Alex Wild.

Centromyrmex sps Kerala. Dr Kalesh Sadasivan 2016

Distribution:

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

Afrotropical Region: Africa, Angola, Bundibugyo, Cameroon, Central, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Eastern Africa, Gabon, Gauteng, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Kwilu, Liberia, Lusaka, Malawi, Maniema, Middle Africa, Mozambique, Ogooué-Maritime, Pwani, Sangha-Mbaéré, South, South Africa, Southern, Southern Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Western Africa, Woleu-Ntem, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Indomalaya Region: Asia, Borneo, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Jawa Barat, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, South-Eastern Asia, Southern Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
Neotropical Region: Alajuela, Amazonas, Amazonas, Americas, Argentina, Bahia, Bolivia, Bolívar, Brazil, Caribbean, Central America, Colombia, Costa Rica, Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo, Ecuador, Heredia, Paraguay, Peru, Puntarenas, Rondônia, South America, São Paulo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunapuna-Piarco, Venezuela
Palearctic Region: China

Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)

Scientific Name Status Publication Pages ModsID GoogleMaps
Centromyrmex nov. gen  Mayr, G., 1866, Diagnosen neuer und wenig gekannter Formiciden., Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 16, pp. 885-908: 894, (download) 894 4366
Centromyrmex   Bolton, B. & Fisher, B. L., 2008, Afrotropical ants of the ponerine genera Centromyrmex Mayr, Promyopias Santschi gen. rev. and Feroponera gen. n., with a revised key to genera of African Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)., Zootaxa 1929, pp. 1-37: 4-10, (download) 4-10 22169


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