An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World
by Barry Bolton
Eurhopalothrix Brown & Kempf, 1961 valid feminine

53 valid species

[Note. All Eurhopalothrix taxa with combination in Basiceros, {epi sensu} Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 2007. The ant tribe Dacetini: limits and constituent genera, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 99:1-191. [2007-11-28] PDF 130719: 90-93; taxonomy documented in Bolton, 2003 is retained here.]
Eurhopalothrix Brown & Kempf, 1961Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1961 ("1960"). The type species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix. Psyche (Cambridge) 67:44. [1961-02-16] PDF 123252: 44. Type-species: Rhopalothrix bolaui, by original designation. AntWeb AntWiki
Genus Eurhopalothrix references
Brown & Kempf, 1960Brown, W. L., Jr.; Kempf, W. W. 1960. A world revision of the ant tribe Basicerotini. Studia Entomologica (n.s.)3:161-250. [1960-12-20] PDF 123250: 202, 245 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Snelling, 1968cSnelling, R. R. 1968c. A new species of Eurhopalothrix from El Salvador (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Contributions in Science (Los Angeles) 154:1-4. [1968-12-31] PDF 128886: 3 (supplement to Brown & Kempf, 1960 key); Taylor, 1968cTaylor, R. W. 1968c. Notes on the Indo-Australian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 16:333-348. [1968-05] PDF 129185: 334 (Indo-Australian species key); Taylor, 1970aTaylor, R. W. 1970a. Notes on some Australian and Melanesian basicerotine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 9:49-52. [1970-04-30] PDF 129188: 51 (supplement to Taylor, 1968b key); Kempf, 1972bKempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. [1972-08-25] PDF 126357: 107 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979Smith, D. R. 1979. Superfamily Formicoidea. Pp. 1323-1467 in: Krombein, K. V.; Hurd, P. D.; Smith, D. R.; Burks, B. D. (eds.) 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America north of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. i-xvi, 1199-2209. [1979] 128659: 1409 (North America catalogue); Taylor & Brown, 1985Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348. [1985] 129218: 64 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987aTaylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. [1987-06] PDF 129202: 26 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Taylor, 1990cTaylor, R. W. 1990c. New Asian ants of the tribe Basicerotini, with an on-line computer interactive key to the twenty-six known Indo-Australian species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 4:397-425. [1990-10-12] PDF 129208: 401 (Old World species key); Brandão, 1991Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. [1991-08-31] PDF 122994: 343 (Neotropical catalogue); Bolton, 1995aBolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. [1995-08] PDF 122859: 1049 (census); Bolton, 1995bBolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp. [1995-10] 122860: 189 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp. [1999-01] 132308: 135 (Australia synopsis); Ketterl, Verhaag & Dietz, 2004: 48 (Neotropical species key); Mezger & Pfeiffer, 2010Mezger, D.; Pfeiffer, M. 2010. Eurhopalothrix elke, a new species from Borneo, and a key to the species of the E. platisquama group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 13:133-139. [2010-04] PDF 131868: 135 (Eurhopalothrix platisquama group key); Longino, 2013Longino, J. T. 2013. A review of the Central American and Caribbean Species of the ant genus Eurhopalothrix Brown and Kempf, 1961 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with a key to New World species. Zootaxa 3693:101-151. [2013-07-29] PDF 142405: 106, 107 (New World species synopsis, key).
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