Current Valid Name:
Taxonomic History (provided by Barry Bolton, 2023)
Extant: 15 valid species, 2 valid subspecies
Taxonomic history
Centromyrmex in
Ponerinae,
Ponerini:
Forel, 1895b PDF: 111;
Forel, 1899b PDF: 2;
Emery, 1901b PDF: 35;
Forel, 1900f PDF: 303;
Ashmead, 1905c PDF: 382;
Wheeler, 1910a PDF: 135;
Emery, 1911e PDF: 57 [subtribe Centromyrmecini];
Arnold, 1915: 38;
Forel, 1917 PDF: 237 [subtribe Centromyrmecini];
Wheeler, 1922: 646; subsequent authors;
Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 10;
Bolton, 1995b: 23;
Bolton, 2003 PDF: 44, 160;
Bolton & Fisher, 2008c PDF: 2.
Centromyrmex as senior synonym of
Spalacomyrmex:
Emery, 1890c PDF: 40 (footnote);
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 15;
Forel, 1900f PDF: 303;
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 93;
Emery, 1911e PDF: 57;
Donisthorpe, 1943h: 727;
Bolton, 1973a PDF: 335;
Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 11;
Bolton, 1995b: 23;
Tang et al., 1995: 33;
Bolton, 2003 PDF: 160;
Bolton & Fisher, 2008c PDF: 4;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF: 164.
Dalla Torre, 1893 PDF: 15;
Emery, 1911e PDF: 57;
Wheeler, 1922: 762, 766, 766 (Afrotropical
Centromyrmex,
Glyphopone,
Leptopone);
Chapman & Capco, 1951 PDF: 52, 76 (Asia
Centromyrmex,
Typhloteras);
Kempf, 1972b PDF: 75 (Neotropical);
Bolton, 1995b: 139;
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF: 167 (species checklist);
Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 244 (Afrotropical checklist).
Bingham, 1903 PDF: 94 (diagnosis);
Emery, 1911e PDF: 57 (diagnosis);
Arnold, 1915: 38 (diagnosis);
Brown, 1963a PDF: 9 (review of genus);
Kempf, 1967b PDF: 404 (Neotropical species revision, key);
Bolton, 1994: 164 (synoptic classification);
Bolton, 1995a PDF: 1048 (census);
Bolton, 2003 PDF: 160 (synopsis);
Fernández, 2008a PDF: 138 (Neotropical species key);
Bolton & Fisher, 2008c PDF: 4, 8 (diagnosis, Afrotropical species revision, key);
Eguchi et al., 2014 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.1.1 PDF: 29 (diagnosis, Vietnam synopsis);
Schmidt & Shattuck, 2014 10.11646/zootaxa.3817.1.1 PDF: 165 (diagnosis, synopsis);
Baccaro et al., 2015 10.5281/zenodo.32912 PDF: 316 (genus in Brazil);
Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 242 (diagnosis);
Cantone, 2017 PDF: 254 (brief male diagnosis);
Fernández & Guerrero, 2019 PDF: 517 (Colombia species key).
Taxon Page Images:

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

Centromyrmex sps Kerala. Dr Kalesh Sadasivan 2016
// Distribution
Distribution:
Geographic regions (According to curated Geolocale/Taxon lists)
: Africa: Angola,
Cameroon,
Central African Republic,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Gabon,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Ivory Coast,
Kenya,
Liberia,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
South Africa,
Tanzania,
Uganda,
Zambia,
Zimbabwe Americas: Argentina,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Colombia,
Costa Rica,
Ecuador,
French Guiana,
Panama,
Paraguay,
Peru,
Trinidad and Tobago,
Venezuela Asia: Borneo,
Cambodia,
China,
India,
Indonesia,
Laos,
Malaysia,
Myanmar,
Philippines,
Singapore,
Sri Lanka,
Taiwan,
Thailand,
Vietnam Biogeographic regions (According to curated Bioregion/Taxon lists)
: Afrotropical,
Indomalaya,
Neotropical Native biogeographic regions (according to species list records)
: Afrotropical,
Indomalaya,
Neotropical
Taxonomic Treatment (provided by Plazi)
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
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Centromyrmex |
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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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