Brachymyrmex
Mayr, 1868
valid
masculine
- Brachymyrmex in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c: 375 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 174.
- Brachymyrmex in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1893b: 165; Forel, 1895b: 106; Emery, 1895l: 771; Forel, 1899h: 123; Wheeler, 1910a: 143.
- Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
- Brachymyrmex in Camponotinae, Myrmelachistini: Forel, 1912j: 89
- Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Dimorphomyrmecini: Emery, 1925d: 40 [subtribe Brachymyrmecini]; Donisthorpe, 1943g: 628.
- Brachymyrmex incertae sedis in Formicinae: Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77.
- Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Myrmelachistini: Wheeler, 1922: 697; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Ward et al., 2016: 348
- Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.
- Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Brachymyrmecini: Wheeler, 1929a: 12; Kempf, 1972b: 37; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 258; Jaffe, 1993: 13; Bolton, 1994: 50.
- Brachymyrmex in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 2003: 23, 101.
Junior synonyms
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Bryscha
Santschi, 1923
Obsolete classification(s): Brachymyrmex (Bryscha)
Genus Brachymyrmex references
Forel, 1878c: 375 (diagnosis); André, 1882c: 214 (Europe & Algeria species); Cresson, 1887: 255 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 174 (catalogue); Wheeler, 1922: 1036 (Malagasy catalogue); Santschi, 1923b: 652 (diagnosis, all species key); Emery, 1925d: 40 (diagnosis, catalogue); Emery, 1925d: 43 (Brachymyrmex (Bryscha) diagnosis, catalogue); Creighton, 1950a: 356 (North America species, review); Bernard, 1967a: 279 (diagnosis); Kempf, 1972b: 37 (Neotropical catalogue); Alayo, 1974: 26 (Cuba species key); Smith, 1979: 1424 (North America catalogue); Brandão, 1991: 331 (catalogue); Bolton, 1995a: 1048 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 81 (catalogue); Quirán et al., 2004: 275 (diagnosis); Ortiz & Fernández, 2014: 13 (review of species with tumuliform metathoracic spiracles, key); Wilson et al., 2016: 81 (male genitalia); Cantone, 2017: 149 (brief male diagnosis); Fernández & Ortiz-Sepúlveda, 2019: 725 (Colombia species key); Ortiz-Sepúlveda et al., 2019: 452, 456 (diagnosis, all species revision, key).
Citations
- Agosti, D. 1991. Revision of the oriental ant genus Cladomyrma, with an outline of the higher classification of the Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 16:293-310. PDF
- Alayo, P. 1974. Introducción al estudio de los Himenópteros de Cuba. Superfamilia Formicoidea. Serie Biológica. Academia de Ciencias de Cuba 53:1-58. PDF
- André, Ern. 1882c. Les fourmis [part]. Pp. 153-232 in: André, Edm. 1882. 1881-1886. Species des Hyménoptères d'Europe et d'Algérie. Tome Deuxième. Beaune: Edmond André, 919 + 48 pp. PDF
- 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. PDF
- Bernard, F. 1967a ("1968"). Faune de l'Europe et du Bassin Méditerranéen. 3. Les fourmis (Hymenoptera Formicidae) d'Europe occidentale et septentrionale. Paris: Masson, 411 pp. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1994. Identification guide to the ant genera of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 222 pp.
- Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056. PDF
- Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
- Bolton, B. 2003. Synopsis and classification of Formicidae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 71:1-370. PDF
- Brandão, C. R. F. 1991. Adendos ao catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 35:319-412. PDF
- 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. PDF
- Creighton, W. S. 1950a. The ants of North America. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 104:1-585. PDF
- Cresson, E. T. Sr. 1887. Synopsis of the families and genera of the Hymenoptera of America, north of Mexico, together with a catalogue of the described species, and bibliography. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, Suppl. Vol. 1887:1-351. PDF
- Dalla Torre, K. W. 1893. Catalogus Hymenopterorum hucusque descriptorum systematicus et synonymicus. Vol. 7. Formicidae (Heterogyna). Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 289 pp. PDF
- Dlussky, G. M.; Fedoseeva, E. B. 1988. Origin and early stages of evolution in ants. [In Russian.]. Pp. 70-144 in: Ponomarenko, A. G. (ed.) 1988. Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and insect evolution. [In Russian.]. Moskva: Nauka, 232 pp.
- Donisthorpe, H. 1943g. A list of the type-species of the genera and subgenera of the Formicidae. [part]. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (11)10:617-688.
- 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. PDF
- Emery, C. 1925d. Hymenoptera. Fam. Formicidae. Subfam. Formicinae. Genera Insectorum 183:1-302. PDF
- Fernández, F.; Ortiz-Sepúlveda, C. M. 2019. Subfamilia Formicinae. Capítulo 25. Pp. 721-741 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
- 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. PDF
- Forel, A. 1893b. Sur la classification de la famille des Formicides, avec remarques synonymiques. Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 37:161-167. PDF
- Forel, A. 1895b. A fauna das formigas do Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense de Historia Natural e Ethnographia 1:89-139. PDF
- Forel, A. 1899h. Formicidae. [part]. Biologia Centrali-Americana Hym. 3:105-136. PDF
- Forel, A. 1912j. Formicides néotropiques. Part VI. 5me sous-famille Camponotinae Forel. Mémoires de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 20:59-92. PDF
- Hölldobler, B.; Wilson, E. O. 1990. The ants. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, xii + 732 pp.
- Jaffe, K. 1993. El mundo de las hormigas. Baruta, Venezuela: Equinoccio (Ediciones de la Universidad Simón Bolívar), 188 pp.
- Kempf, W. W. 1972b. Catálogo abreviado das formigas da região Neotropical. Studia Entomologica 15:3-344. PDF
- Mayr, G. 1868b. Formicidae novae Americanae collectae a Prof. P. de Strobel. Annuario della Società dei Naturalisti e Matematici, Modena 3:161-178. PDF
- Ortiz-Sepúlveda, C. M.; Van Bocxlaer, B.; Meneses, A. D.; Fernández, F. 2019. Molecular and morphological recognition of species boundaries in the neglected ant genus Brachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Toward a taxonomic revision. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19:447-542. 10.1007/s13127-019-00406-2 PDF
- Ortiz, C. M.; Fernández, F. 2014. Brachymyrmex species with tumuliform metathoracic spiracles: description of three new species and discussion of dimorphism in the genus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 371:13-33. PDF
- Quirán, E. M.; Martínez, J. J.; Bachmann, A. O. 2004. The Neotropical genus Brachymyrmex Mayr, 1868 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Argentina. Redescription of the type species, B. patagonicus Mayr, 1868; B. bruchi Forel, 1912 and B. oculatus Santschi, 1919. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n.s.)20:273-285. PDF
- Santschi, F. 1923b. Revue des fourmis du genre Brachymyrmex Mayr. Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 31:650-678. PDF
- Smith, 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.
- Ward, P. S.; Blaimer, B. B.; Fisher, B. L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357. PDF
- Wheeler, G. C.; Wheeler, J. 1985b. A simplified conspectus of the Formicidae. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 111:255-264. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1910a. Ants: their structure, development and behavior. New York: Columbia University Press, xxv + 663 pp. PDF
- Wheeler, W. M. 1922. Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. New York: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1139.
- Wheeler, W. M. 1929a. The identity of the ant genera Gesomyrmex Mayr and Dimorphomyrmex Ernest André. Psyche (Cambridge) 36:1-12. PDF
- Wilson, C. M.; Smith-Herron, A.; Cook, J. L. 2016. Morphology of the male genitalia of Brachymyrmex and their implications in the Formicinae phylogeny. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 50:81-95. 10.3897/JHR.50.8697 PDF
Extant: 40 valid species, 1 valid subspecies
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