Myrmecia Fabricius, 1804 valid feminine
Myrmecia Fabricius, 1804: 423 Type-species: Formica gulosa (obsolete combination of Myrmecia gulosa), by subsequent designation of Shuckard, 1840e: 173.
Type notes: Formica gulosa was also nominated as type-species by Emery, 1911e: 18, and Wheeler, 1911g: 168, apparently unaware of the earlier designation.
Junior synonyms
Obsolete classifications
Genus Myrmecia catalogues

Mayr, 1863a: 430; Roger, 1863b: 22; Dalla Torre, 1893: 19; Emery, 1911e: 19, 19, 21 (Myrmecia (Promyrmecia), Myrmecia (Myrmecia), Myrmecia (Pristomyrmecia)); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 6 (Australia); Taylor, 1987a: 41 (Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand); Bolton, 1995b: 270.

Genus Myrmecia references

Smith, 1858a: 143 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1862: 723 (all species key); Mayr, 1865: 18 (diagnosis); Forel, 1893b: 162 (diagnosis); Emery, 1895l: 766 (diagnosis); Wheeler, 1910a: 134 (diagnosis); Emery, 1911e: 17 (diagnosis, subgenera key); Forel, 1917: 235 (synoptic classification); Clark, 1943: 85 (Promyrmecia species key); Clark, 1951: 21, 119 (Myrmecia, Promyrmecia all species revisions, keys); Brown, 1953j: 1 (revisionary notes); Brown, 1954e: 22 (diagnosis, phylogeny); Eisner, 1957: 449 (proventriculus morphology); Brown, 1958h: 10 (New Zealand); Gotwald, 1969b: 113 (mouthparts morphology); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1972a: 38 (diagnosis); Brown, 1973b: 165 (genera, distribution); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1976b: 46 (larvae, review & synthesis); Greenslade, 1979: 11 (South Australia, review); Kugler, 1980b: 263 (sting structure); Wheeler & Wheeler, 1985b: 256 (synoptic classification); Billen, 1986b: 170 (Dufour's gland); Dlussky & Fedoseeva, 1988: 77 (synoptic classification); Billen, 1988: 27 (comparison of genera); Billen, 1990c: 133 (sting bulb gland); Ogata, 1991a: 353 (species groups review, phylogeny, key); Ogata & Taylor, 1991: 1623 (all species review, key); Brandão, 1991: 390 (Neotropical fauna, synoptic classification); Baroni Urbani et al., 1992: 317 (phylogeny); Bolton, 1994: 73 (diagnosis, synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Shattuck, 1999: 119 (Australia, synopsis); Baroni Urbani, 2000: 480 (phylogeny); Dlussky & Rasnitsyn, 2003: 418 (fossil taxa, diagnosis for impression fossils); Ward & Brady, 2003: 361 (phylogeny, classification); Bolton, 2003: 29, 131 (diagnosis, synopsis); Brady et al., 2006: 18173 (phylogeny); Moreau et al., 2006: 102 (phylogeny); Archibald et al., 2006: 505 (fossil taxa, morphology, systematics, discussion); Heterick, 2009: 119 (south-western Australia species key); Keller, 2011: 1 (morphology, phylogeny); Taylor, 2015a: 497 (Myrmecia pilosula complex key); Liu et al., 2019: 1 (mesosoma anatomy); Heterick, 2021: 150 (Western Australia species key); Mera-Rodríguez et al., 2023: 1 (biogeography, life history, phylogenomics, social parasitism).

Citations

Extant: 93 valid species

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