Leptomyrmex
Mayr, 1862
valid
masculine
Leptomyrmex
Mayr, 1862:
652 (diagnosis in key), 695
Type-species:
Formica erythrocephala (obsolete combination of Leptomyrmex erythrocephalus), by monotypy.
- Leptomyrmex in Formicinae: Mayr, 1862: 652 (in key) [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 7 [Formicidae].
- Leptomyrmex in Dolichoderinae: Forel, 1878c: 386 [Dolichoderidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 162; Emery, 1895l: 771; Wheeler, 1910a: 142.
- Leptomyrmex in Dolichoderidae: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
- Leptomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Dolichoderini: Shattuck, 1992c: 106; Bolton, 1994: 26; Bolton, 2003: 89.
- Leptomyrmex in Dolichoderinae, Leptomyrmecini: Emery, 1913a: 15 [Leptomyrmicini]; Wheeler, 1915e: 262 [Leptomyrmicii]; Forel, 1917: 247; Wheeler, 1922: 688; all subsequent authors except the above; then Ward et al., 2010: 362.
Genus Leptomyrmex references
Roger, 1863b: 10 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a: 426 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 7 (diagnosis); Dalla Torre, 1893: 162 (catalogue); Emery, 1913a: 15 (diagnosis, catalogue); Wheeler, 1915e: 264 (Australia species key); Wheeler, 1934c: 80 (all species key); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 186 (Asia checklist); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 103 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 35 (Australia, New Caledonia checklist); Brandão, 1991: 349 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1992c: 106 (diagnosis, review of genus); Shattuck, 1994: 115 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 234 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 74 (Australia synopsis); Smith & Shattuck, 2009: 58 (micro-Leptomyrmex species key); Lucky & Ward, 2010: 1 (diagnosis, macro-Leptomyrmex species revision, keys); Lucky, 2011: 281 (internal phylogeny); Boudinot et al., 2016: 658 (biogeography); Barden et al., 2017: 765 (fossil examination, male characters, internal phylogeny, biogeography); Cantone, 2017: 119 (brief male diagnosis)
Citations
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Ashmead, W. H. 1905c. A skeleton of a new arrangement of the families, subfamilies, tribes and genera of the ants, or the superfamily Formicoidea. Canadian Entomologist 37:381-384.
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Barden, P.; Boudinot, B. E.; Lucky, A. 2017. Where fossils dare and males matter: combined morphological and molecular analysis untangles the evolutionary history of the spider ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Dolichoderinae). Invertebrate Systematics 31:765-780.
10.1071/IS16067 PDF
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Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
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Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056.
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Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
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Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370.
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Boudinot, B. E.; Probst, R. S.; Brandão, C. R. F.; Feitosa, R. M.; Ward, P. S. 2016. Out of the Neotropics: newly discovered relictual species sheds light on the biogeographical history of spider ants (Leptomyrmex, Dolichoderinae, Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 41:658-671.
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Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412.
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Cantone, S. 2017. Winged ants – The male. Dichotomous key to genera of winged male ants in the world. Behavioral ecology of mating flight. São Paulo: Autopubblicato, 318 pp.
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Chapman, J. W.; Capco, S. R. 1951. Check list of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Asia. Monographs of the Institute of Science and Technology. Manila 1:1-327.
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Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp.
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Emery, C. 1895l. Die Gattung Dorylus Fab. und die systematische Eintheilung der Formiciden. Zoologische Jahrbücher. Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 8:685-778.
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Emery, C. 1913a ("1912"). Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Dolichoderinae. Genera Insectorum 137:1-50.
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Forel, A. 1878c. Études myrmécologiques en 1878 (première partie) avec l'anatomie du gésier des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 15:337-392.
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Forel, A. 1917. Cadre synoptique actuel de la faune universelle des fourmis. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles 51:229-253.
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Lucky, A. 2011. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the spider ants, genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59:281-292.
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Lucky, A.; Ward, P. S. 2010. Taxonomic revision of the ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2688:1-67.
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Mayr, G. 1862. Myrmecologische Studien. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 12:649-776.
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Mayr, G. 1863a. Formicidarum index synonymicus. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 13:385-460.
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Mayr, G. 1865. Formicidae. In: Novara Expedition 1865. Reise der Österreichischen Fregatte "Novara" um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Zoologischer Theil. Bd. II. Abt. 1. Wien: K. Gerold's Sohn, 119 pp.
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Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65.
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Shattuck, S. O. 1992c. Generic revision of the ant subfamily Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 21:1-181.
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Shattuck, S. O. 1994. Taxonomic catalog of the ant subfamilies Aneuretinae and Dolichoderinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). University of California Publications in Entomology 112:i-xix, 1-241.
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Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
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Smith, D. J.; Shattuck, S. O. 2009. Six new, unusually small ants of the genus Leptomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 2142:57-68.
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Taylor, 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.
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Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
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Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference. Systematic Biology 59:342-362.
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Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp.
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Wheeler, W. M. 1915e. The Australian honey-ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 51:255-286.
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Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
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Wheeler, W. M. 1934c. A second revision of the ants of the genus Leptomyrmex Mayr. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 77:69-118.
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