Plagiolepis
Mayr, 1861
valid
feminine
Plagiolepis
Mayr, 1861:
42
Type-species:
Formica pygmaea (obsolete combination of Plagiolepis pygmaea), by monotypy.
- Plagiolepis in Formicinae: Mayr, 1861: 42 [Formicinae]; Mayr, 1862: 652 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 7 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1868c: 36 [Formicidae]; Forel, 1874: 45 [Formicidae].
- Plagiolepis in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c: 378 [Camponotidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 453 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 172 [Camponotinae]; Emery, 1896e: 188 [Camponotinae].
- Plagiolepis in Camponotinae, Plagiolepidini: Forel, 1886h: 212; Forel, 1893b: 165; Emery, 1895l: 771; Wheeler, 1910a: 143; Forel, 1912j: 88; Wheeler, 1915i: 100; Emery, 1916a: 219; Forel, 1917: 249; Arnold, 1920a: 578.
- Plagiolepis in Formicinae, Pseudolasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.
- Plagiolepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384; Bondroit, 1918: 18; Wheeler, 1922: 696; Emery, 1925d: 19; Santschi, 1926a: 14; subsequent authors; Kempf, 1972b: 205; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 23, 105; Ward et al., 2016: 348.
- Plagiolepis as genus: all authors.
- Plagiolepis as senior synonym of Anacantholepis: Brown, 1973b: 178 [provisional]; Smith, 1979: 1422; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 105, 268.
- Plagiolepis as senior synonym of Aporomyrmex: Brown, 1973b: 178 [provisional]; Smith, 1979: 1422; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 105.
- Plagiolepis as senior synonym of Paraplagiolepis: Brown, 1973b: 183 [provisional]; Smith, 1979: 1422; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18; Bolton, 1994: 51; Bolton, 1995b: 42; Bolton, 2003: 105.
- Plagiolepis as senior synonym of †Rhopalomyrmex: Dlussky, 1997a: 624; Bolton, 2003: 105.
- [Plagrolepis: incorrect subsequent spelling by Ashmead, 1905c: 384.]
Junior synonyms
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Anacantholepis
Santschi, 1914
Obsolete classification(s): Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis)
- Aporomyrmex Faber, 1969
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Paraplagiolepis
Faber, 1969
Obsolete classification(s): Plagiolepis (Paraplagiolepis)
- †Rhopalomyrmex Mayr, 1868
Obsolete classifications
Genus Plagiolepis catalogues
Mayr, 1863a: 442; Roger, 1863b: 11; Emery & Forel, 1879: 453 (Europe); Dalla Torre, 1893: 172, 175 (Plagiolepis, †Rhopalomyrmex); Wheeler, 1922: 928, 930, 1035 (Afrotropical Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis), Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis), Malagasy); Emery, 1925d: 19, 22 (Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis), Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis)); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 212, 213 (Asia Anacantholepis, Plagiolepis); Kempf, 1972b: 205 (Neotropical); Smith, 1979: 1422 (North America); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 130 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 55 (Australia, New Caledonia); Bolton, 1995b: 334; Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 374 (Afrotropical, Malagasy checklist).
Genus Plagiolepis references
Mayr, 1865: 7 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 73 (diagnosis); Forel, 1878c: 376, 378 (†Rhopalomyrmex, Plagiolepis diagnoses); André, 1882c: 208 (Europe & Algeria species key); Forel, 1894c: 414 (India & Sri Lanka species key); Bingham, 1903: 320 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Arnold, 1920a: 578 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Arnold, 1922: 579 (South Africa species key); Wheeler, 1922: 211, 696 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Emery, 1925d: 19, 22 (Plagiolepis (Plagiolepis), Plagiolepis (Anacantholepis) diagnoses); Stitz, 1939: 231 (Germany species key); Kratochvíl, 1941b: 98 (Central Europe species key); Novák & Sadil, 1941: 98 (Central Europe species key); Bernard, 1967a: 272 (diagnosis, Western Europe species key); Kutter, 1977c: 185 (Switzerland species key); Collingwood, 1978: 89 (Iberian Peninsula species key); Gösswald, 1985: 264 (Germany species key); Collingwood, 1985: 297 (Saudi Arabia species key); Agosti & Collingwood, 1987b: 280 (Balkans species key); Radchenko, 1989c: 153 (European former U.S.S.R. species key); Dlussky et al., 1990: 161 (Turkmenistan species key); Morisita et al., 1991: 16 (Japan species key); Atanassov & Dlussky, 1992: 201 (Bulgaria species key); Arakelian, 1994: 78 (Armenia species key); Bolton, 1994: 51 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 130 (China species key); Radchenko, 1996d: 178 (Central & Southern Palaearctic species key); Collingwood & Agosti, 1996: 362 (Saudi Arabia species key); Seifert, 1996b: 178 (Central Europe species key); Dlussky, 1997a: 53 (in Baltic amber genera key); Collingwood & Prince, 1998: 22 (Portugal species key); Shattuck, 1999: 106 (Australia synopsis); Seifert, 2007: 158 (North and Central Europe species key); Terayama, 2009: 213 (Taiwan species key); Heterick, 2009: 106 (south-western Australia species key); Dlussky, 2010a: 72 (Eocene European amber species key); Sharaf et al., 2011: 208 (Arabian Peninsula species key); Fisher & Bolton, 2016: 373 (diagnosis); Radchenko, 2016: 341 (Ukraine species key); Cantone, 2017: 169 (brief male diagnosis); Salata et al., 2018: 819 (north-eastern Mediterranean species key); Seifert, 2020b (Plagiolepis schmitzii group revision); Heterick, 2021: 129 (Western Australia species key); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 245 (diagnosis, key to Greece species).
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†fossil
valid
synonym
unidentifiable/excluded from Formicidae
homonym
unavailable/nomen nudum
obsolete combination
- All genera
- Incertae sedis
- Agroecomyrmecinae
- Amblyoponinae
- Aneuretinae
- Apomyrminae
- †Armaniinae
- †Brownimeciinae
- Dolichoderinae
- Dorylinae
- Ectatomminae
- †Formiciinae
- Formicinae
- †Haidomyrmecinae
- Leptanillinae
- Martialinae
- Myrmeciinae
- Myrmicinae
- Paraponerinae
- Ponerinae
- Proceratiinae
- Pseudomyrmecinae
- †Sphecomyrminae
- †Zigrasimeciinae
- All taxa
- Subgenera
- Without subgenus
- abyssinica
- adynata
- alluaudi
- ampeloni
- arnoldii
- atlantis
- balestrierii
- barbara
- bicolor
- boltoni
- breviscapa
- brunni
- calva
- capensis
- cardiocarenis
- chirindensis
- clarki
- compressa
- decora
- delaugerrei
- demangei
- deweti
- dichroa
- dlusskyi
- exigua
- flavescens
- funicularis
- fuscula
- grassei
- hoggarensis
- intermedia
- invadens
- jerdonii
- jouberti
- juddi
- karawajewi
- †klinsmanni
- †kuenowi
- †labilis
- livingstonei
- longwang
- lucidula
- madecassa
- manczshurica
- mediorufa
- †minutissima
- moelleri
- montivaga
- nitida
- nynganensis
- pallescens
- †paradoxa
- perperamus
- pictipes
- pissina
- pontii
- puncta
- pygmaea
- pyrenaica
- regis
- rogeri
- schmitzii
- simoni
- †singularis
- †solitaria
- †squamifera
- squamulosa
- †succini
- sudanica
- taurica
- vanderkelleni
- vladileni
- †wheeleri
- wilsoni
- xene