Prenolepis
Mayr, 1861
valid
feminine
Prenolepis
Mayr, 1861:
52
Type-species:
Tapinoma nitens (obsolete combination of Prenolepis nitens), by subsequent designation of Bingham, 1903: 325.
- [Type-species not Prenolepis imparis, unjustified subsequent designation by Emery, 1906b: 134, repeated in Wheeler, 1911g: 171 and Wheeler, 1922: 940.]
- Prenolepis in Formicinae: Mayr, 1861: 52 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1862: 652 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1865: 7 [Formicidae]; Mayr, 1868c: 32 [Formicidae].
- Prenolepis in Camponotinae: Forel, 1878c: 377 [Camponotidae]; Emery & Forel, 1879: 453 [Camponotidae]; Dalla Torre, 1893: 177.
- Prenolepis in Camponotinae, Camponotini: Forel, 1886h: 209.
- Prenolepis in Camponotinae, Formicini: Forel, 1893b: 165; Forel, 1895b: 103; Emery, 1895l: 772; Forel, 1899h: 125; Wheeler, 1910a: 143.
- Prenolepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Ashmead, 1905c: 384.
- Prenolepis in Camponotinae, Prenolepidini: Forel, 1912j: 89; Wheeler, 1915i: 117; Forel, 1917: 249; Arnold, 1922: 605.
- Prenolepis in Formicinae, Prenolepidini: Wheeler, 1922: 697; Chapman & Capco, 1951: 219; Hölldobler & Wilson, 1990: 18.
- Prenolepis in Formicinae, Acanthomyopsini: Donisthorpe, 1943g: 685.
- Prenolepis in Formicinae, Brachymyrmecini: Wheeler & Wheeler, 1970b: 651; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 101; Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 258.
- Prenolepis in Formicinae; Lasiini: Emery, 1925d: 224; Stitz, 1939: 379; Kempf, 1972b: 209; Smith, 1979: 1444; Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77; Jaffe, 1993: 14; Bolton, 1994: 50; Ward et al., 2016: 347
- Prenolepis in Formicinae, Lasius genus group: Agosti, 1991: 296.
- Prenolepis in Formicinae, Plagiolepidini: Bolton, 2003: 23, 105.
Obsolete classifications
Genus Prenolepis references
Roger, 1863b: 10 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a: 451 (catalogue); Mayr, 1865: 7 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1867a: 71 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1870b: 947 (all species key); Forel, 1878c: 377 (diagnosis); André, 1882c: 203 (Europe & Algeria species key); Cresson, 1887: 257 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 177 (catalogue); Bingham, 1903: 326 (India, Sri Lanka & Burma species key); Emery, 1910a: 127 (Palaearctic species key); Arnold, 1922: 605 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1922: 216, 697, 940 (diagnosis, subgenera key, Afrotropical catalogue); Emery, 1925d: 224 (diagnosis, catalogue); Creighton, 1950a: 410 (North America species review); Chapman & Capco, 1951: 219 (Asia checklist); Kempf, 1972b: 209 (Neotropical catalogue); Smith, 1979: 1442 (North America catalogue); Bolton, 1994: 50 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 363 (catalogue); Wu & Wang, 1995a: 137 (China species key); Xu, 1995c: 338 (Southern & Eastern Asia species key); Fontenla, 2000a: 81 (Antilles Is species key); Zhou, 2001a: 170 (China, Guangxi species key); Wang & Wu, 2007: 721 (China species key); LaPolla et al., 2010a: 129 (diagnosis); Bharti & Wachkoo, 2012d (Indian species review, key); Williams & LaPolla, 2016: 201 (revision, diagnosis, morphological phylogeny); Cantone, 2017: 171 (brief male diagnosis); Chen & Zhou, 2018: 65 (China species key); Williams & LaPolla, 2018: 173 (all species key); Williams, 2022: 8 (biogeography); Borowiec & Salata, 2022: 255 (diagnosis).
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