Mesostruma
Brown, 1948
valid
feminine
Mesostruma
Brown, 1948e:
118
Type-species:
Strumigenys turneri (obsolete combination of Mesostruma turneri), by original designation.
- Mesostruma in Myrmicinae, Dacetini: Brown, 1948e: 118.
- Mesostruma as junior synonym of Colobostruma: Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 1994: 15; Baroni Urbani & De Andrade, 2007: 94.
- Mesostruma as genus: Brown, 1948e: 118; Brown, 1952g: 9; Bolton, 1995b: 35; Taylor, 1973: 25; Bolton, 1999: 1680; Shattuck, 2000: 47; Heterick, 2009: 157.
- Mesostruma in Myrmicinae, Attini: Ward et al., 2015: 17.
Genus Mesostruma references
Brown, 1952g: 9 (diagnosis, all species key); Taylor, 1973: 27 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Taylor & Brown, 1985: 69 (Australia catalogue); Taylor, 1987a: 40 (Australia checklist); Bolton, 1995a: 1050 (census); Bolton, 1995b: 252 (catalogue); Shattuck, 1999: 143 (Australia synopsis); Bolton, 1999: 1680 (morphology, diagnosis, review of genus, phylogeny); Shattuck, 2000: 47 (diagnosis, all species revision, key); Cantone, 2017: 210 (brief male diagnosis)
Citations
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Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 1994. First description of fossil Dacetini ants with a critical analysis of the current classification of the tribe (Amber Collection Stuttgart: Hymenoptera, Formicidae. VI: Dacetini). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 198:1-65.
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Baroni Urbani, C.; De Andrade, M. L. 2007. The ant tribe Dacetini: limits and constituent genera, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria" 99:1-191.
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130719
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Bolton, B. 1995a. A taxonomic and zoogeographical census of the extant ant taxa (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 29:1037-1056.
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122859
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Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
122860
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Bolton, B. 1999. Ant genera of the tribe Dacetonini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History 33:1639-1689.
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Brown, W. L., Jr. 1948e. A preliminary generic revision of the higher Dacetini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 74:101-129.
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Brown, W. L., Jr. 1952g. Contributions toward a reclassification of the Formicidae. I. Tribe Platythyreini (Hymenoptera). Breviora 6:1-6.
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123086
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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.
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143115
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Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206.
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Shattuck, S. O. 1999. Australian ants. Their biology and identification. Collingwood, Victoria: CSIRO Publishing, xi + 226 pp.
132308
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Shattuck, S. O. 2000. Genus Colobostruma. Genus Mesostruma. Genus Epopostruma. Pp. 31-67 in: Bolton, B. 2000. The ant tribe Dacetini. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 65:1-1028.
132309
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Taylor, R. W. 1973. Ants of the Australian genus Mesostruma Brown (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 12:24-38.
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129160
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Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92.
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Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
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Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2015. The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Systematic Entomology 40:61-81.
10.1111/syen.12090 PDF
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Extant: 9 valid species
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