- Pseudomyrmex in Pseudomyrmecinae: Smith, 1952a: 98; all subsequent authors.
Junior synonyms
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Apedunculata
Enzmann, 1944
Obsolete classification(s): Pseudomyrma (Apedunculata)
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Clavanoda
Enzmann, 1944
Obsolete classification(s): Pseudomyrma (Clavanoda)
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Latinoda
Enzmann, 1944
Obsolete classification(s): Pseudomyrma (Latinoda)
- Leptalea Erichson, 1839
- Myrmex Guérin-Méneville, 1844
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Ornatinoda
Enzmann, 1944
Obsolete classification(s): Pseudomyrma (Ornatinoda)
- Pseudomyrma Guérin-Méneville, 1844
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Triangulinoda
Enzmann, 1944
Obsolete classification(s): Pseudomyrma (Triangulinoda)
Genus Pseudomyrmex references
Smith, 1858a: 153 (diagnosis); Roger, 1863b: 24 (catalogue); Mayr, 1863a: 426, 451 (Leptalea, Pseudomyrma catalogues); Mayr, 1865: 24 (diagnosis); Mayr, 1870a: 407 (Colombia + Panama (=New Grenada) species key); Smith, 1877b: 58 (checklist); Cresson, 1887: 262 (U.S.A. catalogue); Dalla Torre, 1893: 55 (catalogue); Emery, 1921c: 28 (diagnosis, catalogue); Gallardo, 1932a: 44 (Argentina species key); Enzmann, 1944: 62 (all species keys); Creighton, 1950a: 79 (North America species key); Kempf, 1961a: 373 (P. gracilis group, partial key); Kempf, 1972b: 215 (Neotropical catalogue); Alayo, 1974: 9 (Cuba species key); Smith, 1979: 1345 (North America catalogue); Ward, 1985b: 215 (Nearctic species key); Billen, 1986b: 173 (Dufour's gland); Ward, 1989a: 407 (Pseudomyrmex oculatus group, key); Ward, 1989a: 430 (Pseudomyrmex subtilissimus group, key); Ward, 1990: 469 (diagnosis, review of genus); Brandão, 1991: 373 (catalogue); Ward, 1992: 76 (Dominican Amber species key); Ward, 1993: 130 (swollen-thorn Acacia-associated species key); Bolton, 1994: 184 (synoptic classification); Bolton, 1995a: 1052 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 370 (catalogue); Ward, 1999b: 473 (Pseudomyrmex viduus group, and other Tachigali- and Triplaris-associated species key); Mackay & Mackay, 2002: 38 (U.S.A., New Mexico species key); Ward, 2017: 524 (species groups key; ferrugineus and goeldii groups species key); Ward & Branstetter, 2017: 1 (ferrugineus group phylogeny); Cantone, 2017: 277 (brief male diagnosis); Ward, 2019: 1092 (Colombia species key); Ward & Branstetter, 2022: 1 (Pseudomyrmex elongatulus group phylogeny, divergence dating, biogeography, classification), 9 (Pseudomyrmex elongatulus group diagnosis, species key (workers, queens).
Citations
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- 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.
- 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
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- Lund, P. W. 1831b. Ueber die Lebensweise einiger brasilianischer Ameisen. Notizen aus dem Gebiete der Natur- und Heilkunde 32:97-106.
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- Roger, J. 1863b. Verzeichniss der Formiciden-Gattungen und Arten. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 7(Beilage):1-65. PDF
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- Smith, F. 1858a. Catalogue of hymenopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part VI. Formicidae. London: British Museum, 216 pp. PDF
- Smith, F. 1877b. Descriptions of new species of the genera Pseudomyrma and Tetraponera, belonging to the family Myrmicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1877:57-72. PDF
- Smith, M. R. 1952a. The correct name for the group of ants formerly known as Pseudomyrma (Hymenoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 54:97-98. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1985b. The Nearctic species of the genus Pseudomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Quaestiones Entomologicae 21:209-246. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1989a. Systematic studies on pseudomyrmecine ants: revision of the Pseudomyrmex oculatus and P. subtilissimus species groups, with taxonomic comments on other species. Quaestiones Entomologicae 25:393-468. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1990. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): generic revision and relationship to other formicids. Systematic Entomology 15:449-489. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1992. Ants of the genus Pseudomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Dominican amber, with a synopsis of the extant Antillean species. Psyche (Cambridge) 99:55-85. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1993. Systematic studies on Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Pseudomyrmecinae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2:117-168. PDF
- Ward, P. S. 1999b. Systematics, biogeography and host plant associations of the Pseudomyrmex viduus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Triplaris- and Tachigali-inhabiting ants. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 126:451-540. PDF
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- Ward, P. S. 2019. Subfamilia Pseudomyrmecinae. Capítulo 33. Pp. 1089-1113 in: Fernández, F.; Guerrero, R. J.; Delsinne, T. (eds.) 2019d. Hormigas de Colombia. Bogotá: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1198 pp. PDF
- Ward, P. S.; Branstetter, M. G. 2017. The acacia ants revisited: convergent evolution and biogeographic context in an iconic ant/plant mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series B 284:1-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.2569 PDF
- Ward, P. S.; Branstetter, M. G. 2022. Species paraphyly and social parasitism: phylogenomics, morphology, and geography clarify the evolution of the Pseudomyrmex elongatulus group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a Mesoamerican ant clade. Insect Systematics and Diversity 6 (1): 4:1-31. 10.1093/isd/iaxb025 PDF